"This tender and sweet animation from film-makers Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han is an involving, poignant study of early childhood; how fragile it is, and how strong you feel yourself to be to have outlived or surpassed it. It is based on the autobiographical novella The Character of Rain by Belgian author Amelie Nothomb, published in 2000. Loise Charpentier voices the role of Amelie, a little girl living in Kobe, Japan, with her Belgian family in the late 60s; mum, dad and older brother and sister."
"Until the age of three, she was in a persistent vegetative state, but was miraculously jolted free of it by a terrifying earthquake; yet she emerges quarrelsome and almost feral, to the despair of her parents. That is until her elegant grandmother Claude (Cathy Cerda) comes to visit and gives her a piece of narcotically delicious white Belgian chocolate, which causes Amelie to bloom into a lovely, biddable child who adores her Japanese nanny Nishio-san (Victoria Grosbois)."
An animated film follows Amelie, a Belgian girl living in Kobe, Japan in the late 1960s, who emerges from a persistent vegetative state after a terrifying earthquake. Amelie initially behaves quarrelsomely and almost ferally, worrying her parents, until her elegant grandmother Claude brings white Belgian chocolate that transforms her into a biddable, affectionate child attached to her Japanese nanny Nishio-san. Social tensions surface with the family's distant landlady, Kashima-san, who resents the Western tenants and Nishio-san because of wartime grievances. The animation blends European and Japanese styles and ends with a memory-driven revisit to Amelie's younger self; UK and Irish cinemas from 13 February.
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