"In a career retrospective talk at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Mamoru Oshii spoke, if not regretfully, mournfully about "Angel's Egg." The legendary Japanese writer and director-who secured his place in animation history with "Ghost in the Shell"-said that his dreamlike, allegorical 1985 OVA film nearly killed his career: "After that, nobody gave me jobs for three years," he said."
"To extend the metaphor, now she's all grown up and moving out of the house. "Angel's Egg" was restored in 4k earlier this year, and since then has enjoyed a global run that included a premiere at Cannes in May and a homecoming at the Tokyo International Film Festival in early November. It's played at a mix of festivals, from modest and genre-specific to high-profile gala events;"
""Angel's Egg" is at the forefront of the latter, a cryptic, symbolically loaded work of art that's better felt than intellectually understood. It combines Christian imagery with delicate hand-drawn animation, and a story that's stripped down to its most essential elements. There's a girl, devoted to caring for the mysterious egg she carries with her at all times; a boy, carrying a gun in the shape of a cross, who joins her in her lonely vigil;"
Angel's Egg is a cryptic, symbolically rich 1985 OVA combining Christian imagery, delicate hand-drawn animation, and an austere, allegorical narrative. The film centers on a girl guarding a mysterious egg and a boy bearing a cross-shaped gun amid an empty, bombed-out city populated by frozen heavenly hosts and a black-spiked, floating eye. The film initially stalled the director's career, leaving him without work for three years. A 4K restoration prompted a global revival with screenings at Cannes, the Tokyo International Film Festival, and varied festivals, contributing to anime's emergence as a mainstream, critically respected cinematic form.
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