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Whisper of the Heart Movie Review

Whisper of the Heart Review

"Whisper of the Heart" Overview


Rating: G
1995


Cast and Crew

Director : Yoshifumi Kondo
Producer : Ned Lott,Toshio Suzuki
Screenwiter : Hayao Miyazaki
Starring : Cary Elwes,David Gallagher,Harold Gould,Abigail Mavity,Brittany Snow,Courtney Thorne-Smith

 
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One of Studio Ghibli's strangest productions has to be this, Whisper of the Heart. Not because of any crazy morphing creatures -- though the film has a few of those -- but because of its subject matter. Here's a movie about teen romance, set largely in a library. There are no rakish adventurers, no ghosts, no forest creatures. Just a boy and a girl and only one magical cat to speak of. The film is generally charming, though its love story is strange to the point of inaccesibility: A girl who writes alternate lyrics to "Take Me Home, Country Roads"? Whoa, now that's weird.

Aka Mimi wo sumaseba.



Review by

Christopher Null


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