18
May 2008
ホーホケキョ となりの山田くん (高畑勲, 1999)
Posted in 映画 (film) by Jun-Dai at 10:00 pm |
My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
On DVD at home with Lucía on 18 May 2008 at around 22:00.
My Neighbors the Yamadas was a delightful film. The animation style was intentionally sparse, and looked as though it was made up of rough ink sketches with watercolor. Similarly, the film comprised a series of vignettes of varying length that gave the sort of impression of the Yamada family that one might get from a series of mostly disconnected comic strips, which is what the film was adapted from. The characters are very much caricatures, very familiar ones at that, as is the family itself (family of four + grandma).
Next time I’ll try it again without subtitles.
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