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Millennium Actress is a spellbinding film.
*spoilers ahead*
Millennium Actress is a spellbinding film. Satoshi Kon’s second cinematic masterpiece is a harrowing drama that plays with reality and fiction to tell an intricate tale full of powerful twists and turns. In many ways, it’s like a novel, sucking us into their world and forcing us to…
Read full review on AniList →Bittersweet but optimistic. Satoshi Kon teaches us ambition and hope.
Satoshi Kon works take me somewhere wonderful. However, when it comes down to it, I don't have much to say about Millenium actress. That's because it's hard to talk about an anime that spells it out so simple and that wants to make you feel. Then there's all those who didn't enjoy it. We're all so d…
Read full review on AniList →A beautiful fulfilling experience, that makes me glad that I watch movies
It took me a long while to come up with any thing substantial to say after I finished watching Millennium Actress, I was overwhelmed and happy and sad all at the same time at a complete loss of words.
Going into this movie I though it would be a sad and melancholy tale of an old actress, Chiyoko F…
Read full review on AniList →Utterly spellbinding in its storytelling, eschewing of cliches, and its tribute to cinema as a whole.
Unlike most anime fans familiar with his body of work, I didn't know much about Satoshi Kon and his influence on the anime/manga industry. At one point, when I was in college, an anime club I joined showed Perfect Blue for a movie night once, but I didn't like it as I'm not really into horror, and I…
Read full review on AniList →"I cried 53 times at this scene."
Satoshi Kon's work is one that plays with what is reality and what is fiction making you to figure out, which is which through the character's perspectives from the psychological horror in <I>Perfect Blue</I> to the mind-bending trip that is <I>Paprika</I> to even the magical realism and convoluted…
Read full review on AniList →A brilliant cinematic experience from the greatest director of our time. His technique really shines.
Millennium Actress is the late Satoshi Kon's second directorial work and, while not as dark as Perfect Blue was, just as intricate and creatively written as it or any of his movies. For those of you unfamiliar with Kon's work, you should know now that it's very cerebral and it can be very hard to fo…
Read full review on AniList →"Since when did this become a film?!"
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A literal and figurative cycle of tragic professionalism and loss, exaggerated for audiences who see everything, and yet nothing, about our protagonist's journey and psyche. Chiyoko is motivated by a naive love that is long-lasting, establishing…
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