In the backseat of a small car driving through rural Japan, Chihiro, a 10-year-old girl, sighs amid a pile of packages. Saddened by the idea of leaving his old school, he moves with his parents and heads for the house he does not know.
Searching for a way to their destination, Chihiro and her parents get lost on a winding road and cross a strange tunnel that leads them to the most surprising place of all: a kind of completely abandoned theme park, in which the two parents of a little girl are quickly seated. to fill their stomachs. After meeting a mysterious boy who advises her to leave before nightfall, Chihiro discovers her two parents… transformed into pigs. In order not to suffer the same fate and not to leave this place, he will have to learn to live in this magical world, which has many surprises waiting for him.
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Awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film in Berlin in 2001, then the second Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in Cinema History (the category was created the previous year), Spirited Away is undoubtedly the most emblematic of Hayao Miyazaki’s three works. (along with Princess Mononoke and my neighbor Totoro).
This film signed by Walt Disney Japan in the early 2000s, which can be described as Alice in Wonderland with Ghibli sauce, is actually the quintessence of the knowledge accumulated by the Japanese studio, orchestrated with the precision of goldsmithing. Founder.
Served with top-notch animation, imbued with an atmosphere that is at times magical and delicate, at times thrilling and unsettling, this fantastical and sophisticated journey takes you to unforgettable characters, sometimes charming, sometimes terrifying. More suitable for a teenage or adult audience than for very young children, Spirited Away also features a sumptuous score by its composer: the legendary Joe Hisaichi, who provided some of Miyazaki’s greatest cinematic music.
These many qualities, as well as its beautiful viewership average of 4,402 out of 5 stars on AlloCiné, make this feature film the best animated film you can find on Netflix (followed by two other films from Studios Ghibli, namely Princess Mononoke and The Tale .Princess Kaguya).
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