This tale, full of dreaminess and magic, makes the best start to the career of the director of “My Neighbor Totoro” (1998), “Princess Mononoke” (2000) and “Spirited Away” (2001).
The boy and the heronthe latest animated film by Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki, took the lead at the French box office, bringing together more than 700,000 spectators for its first week in theaters, according to figures from CBO Box-Office on Wednesday.
He’s ahead of comedy 3 Days Max by and with Tarek Boudali, about an unwilling hero cop, where Boudali finds his laughter accomplices Philippe Lacheau and Julien Arruti, which attracted 1.4 million spectators in total, including 539,000 last week.
The holidays continued to benefit Paw Patrol : nearly 400,000 spectators discovered the adventures of Chase, Marcus and Stella last week, for a total of 2.1 million admissions in four weeks. Follows the other holiday animation success, Trolls 3with 1.2 million fans.
Finally, Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Killers of The Flower Moona fresco which brings together Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro for 3 hours 26 minutes, attracted more than a million spectators in three weeks.
Dreamlike tale
The Boy and the Heron is Hayao Miyazaki’s twelfth feature film, both the most autobiographical and a sort of best of of his work and his favorite themes.
It tells the story of Mahito, a young 11-year-old boy who lives in Tokyo at the end of the Second World War, and who must leave the capital for the Japanese countryside, after the accidental death of his mother in a fire. His new playground: a huge, somewhat sad mansion, a huge plot of land near a river, and a lot of solitude, his father also deciding to remarry, and to expect a baby with his deceased’s younger sister. female.
Mahito will meet a talking gray heron, with an unattractive human face hidden in its beak, and discover many things. The Boy and the Heron is a masterpiece, and the most ‘Lewiscarollian’ of its author.
As in his previous animated films, Miyazaki once again summons childhood, mourning, wonder, the future of the planet, historical references, war, creating a sort of old-fashioned multiverse, and very personal, often flamboyant – with animals as splendid as they are menacing – sometimes complex, slightly ironic, and always magnificent.