An old fashioned boys’ adventure tale with a heavy dose of mono no aware – a sense of the ephemerality of life and its consequent value – this Japanese contribution to the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival will both charm and sadden audiences, in a sweet way. It’s a story narrated by Roma (voiced by Natsuke Hanae) as he looks back on the summer when he was 15-years-old, just before he finished high school, and at the events which changed his understanding of life.
Flashing back to that time, we see Roma as a boy working on a farm, ostracised by other local kids because he (supposedly) smells of manure. This experience of exclusion intensifies his bond with best friend Toto (Yûki Kaji), with whom he shares a secret hideout in the forest as part of a gang called the Don Glees (a name which will be explained in due...
Flashing back to that time, we see Roma as a boy working on a farm, ostracised by other local kids because he (supposedly) smells of manure. This experience of exclusion intensifies his bond with best friend Toto (Yûki Kaji), with whom he shares a secret hideout in the forest as part of a gang called the Don Glees (a name which will be explained in due...
- 7/23/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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