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Nishi no majo ga shinda (2008)
A troubled fourteen year old girl is sent to her European grandmother, who lives in the Tokyo countryside, for old fashioned discipline.
9 October 2008 - 4 out of 6 users found this review helpful.
This is a gentle, dreamlike story for preteen girls and their moms. The details are rich, and truthful. There is a sequence about jelly making that might at first seem dull, but in its specificity, it becomes engaging and poetic.The cinematography is beautiful. The pace is necessarily slow. In the end,though, it is Sachi Parker, a presence and a star, who elevates the film to a higher level. A young woman, Parker transforms herself into a sixty five year old, dowdy matron. There is not a moment where we do not see the character's age and experience. It is an Oscar worthy performance befitting a member of one of Hollywood's royal families.
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