As the films from the festival circuit start hitting theaters and streamers, the best fall movies are almost upon us.
offers a potent, gripping murder trial with deeply dramatic family elements intertwined with the proceedings.‘s Sandra Hüller leads the way as a woman accused of killing her husband. Their blind son is the only witness to his father’s snowy, unseemly death — and the ensuing cerebral dissection will certainly leave us questioning more than the final verdict.
has been even more enticing as a swan song because of the mystery surrounding the film. With no conventional press materials released in the years of development, we’ve been left to speculate what kind of narrative would befit Miyazaki’s farewell. Now, after releasing in Japanese theaters in July, Studio Ghibli and
are bringing the movie stateside. Featuring the familiar, glorious hand-drawn house style of Ghibli alongside some innovate, nightmarish animation,naturally deals with mortality, war, magic, history, lines between reality and fantasy, and human connection. Also, a heron. Though the movie’s Japanese title
references a 1937 Genzaburō Yoshino novel, Miyazaki is known for his liberal adaptation style, sometimes discarding everything but a single element of a source, so don’t look too hard for clues. Rather, it seems more illuminating to look to the themes and subject matter that has preoccupied Miyazaki’s later career, especially as the 82-year-old gets more and more comfortable explicitly addressing his age in his work.
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