![]() ![]() It’s like they’ve known each other forever…Īs a film, Marnie has suggestions of a ghost story and a time-slip tale, though it may be both or neither. From the girls’ first meeting at a moonlit mansion, when Marnie smiles down on an awed Anna like an angel in white, their friendship is charming, joyful and mysterious. Accept it on those terms, and it’s wonderful. This is a small film, closer to Arrietty (by Marnie director Hiromasa Yonebayashi) or Poppy Hill than to Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away. Marnie sees Studio Ghibli working in miniature. In the new surroundings, Anna finds a friend a jovial, beautiful girl called Marnie, who lives in a fine house amid marsh and mist. As the film opens, she’s sent away to a coastal town for recuperation – both for her asthma, and because of her foster mum’s concerns that she never seems happy. Marnie tells the story of a solitary, withdrawn, rather boyish-looking girl called Anna. When Marnie Was There, released in cinemas on 10th June through Studio Canal, may be the last feature film made at the world’s most famous anime studio, Ghibli. ![]()
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