![]() ![]() ![]() Another romantically wounded yarn that starts with magical-realism before bleeding into fantasy, the film opens with a brief introduction to a Tokyo girl named Amano Hina (Mori Nana), whose dying mother is about to pass on to the other side. This may be a thoroughly modern fable about volatile storms and a young girl who has the power to stop the rain, but - for better or worse - it’s too soaked in raw teenage emotions to puddle into a simple tale about how we need to treat the Earth like we have a crush on it.įor a movie about the sky, “Weathering with You” is ironically one of Shinkai’s most grounded films - immediately more warm and engaging than “Your Name,” if not at all capable of delivering the same emotional payoff. Of course, Shinkai fans know better than to expect him to make a clear, didactic parable about climate change his stories tend to begin in a literal mode before the strain of distance pulls them apart at the seams, and narrative logic is sublimated into the stuff of pure feeling. ![]() ‘Love Again’ Review: Not Even Celine Dion Can Save This Wildly Contrived Rom-Com from Its Own Sadness ![]()
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