Film Review - The Boy and the Heron
The latest animated fantasy from a not-quite-retired Hayao Miyazaki delivers his trademark opulence, surrealism, and poignancy
A variation on the running gag in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), about characters being “not quite dead”, could be applied to venerated Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki. He’s not quite retired, despite having officially retired after Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), and The Wind Rises (2013…
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