EPISODE
Mary and the Witch's Flower (Meari to majo no hana) [Sub: Eng]
This animation story begins with a girl named Mary who lives with her aunt in the town. We live here a lot of exciting and strange events with marry, where she didn't know any friends or adventures in her life. But in on day, she decides to know a strange cat in the forest. The events may change after that, where she discovered the flower by night –it is a plant that thrives once every seven years. Finally, Marry decided learn the magic over the clouds in the school of Mumblechook and Dr. Dee.
16 July 2004, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
1971, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
1985, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK
23 January 1972, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
September1961, Flushing, Cornwall, England, UK
September 04, 2018
There is only one Miyazaki, and his disciple insists on reminding us. [Full review in Spanish]
January 18, 2018
What Mary and the Witch's Flower lacks in dimensionality, it makes up for in wonderment.
January 20, 2018
The animators invoke worlds upon worlds in Mary and the Witch's Flower.
October 16, 2018
An entertaining and friendly personal journey with classicism in precepts about personal worth, ambition and respect for nature. [Full Review in Spanish]
January 18, 2018
It shows tremendous promise, even if the movie exists so obviously at the mercy of its influences, and Yonebayashi at his.
September 10, 2018
The legacy of the [Hayao Miyazaki] is in good hands. [Full review in Spanish]
January 18, 2018
The spell Mr. Yonebayashi casts is effective, but also ephemeral. It's minor magic.
September 07, 2018
On its own merits, the film is an enchanting diversion, but director Hiromasa Yonebayashi... spends too much time reminding us of Ghibli's greatest hits instead of attempting to craft his own masterpiece.
January 18, 2018
A gentle, sweet story, told with painterly artistry.
September 07, 2018
Mary and the Witch's Flower shows that Yonebayashi knows, as Alfred Hitchcock would say, how to start a movie with an earthquake (in this case, an earthquake of sensations, pure kinetic energy and constant plastic invention). [Full Review in Spanish]
December 11, 2018
It's a very loose adaptation of the book, as was Howl's Moving Castle and Arrietty, but there's charm in the mix of English kid-lit tropes and the sort of wild imagination cultivated in Japanese animation.
January 18, 2018
With Mary and the Witch's Flower, [Studio Ponoc has] come both too close and not close enough, resulting in an adventure that can never climb out of the uncanny valley it digs for itself.

