As Memórias de Marnie

...når måske ikke Miyazakis magiske højder men formår alligevel at tilføre en historie om teenage-tungsind en gådefuld og barnlig charme.

...a sweet tale about learning to embrace our tragic pasts and differences not so we fit in but so we are comfortable on our own. It is filled with the luscious, beautiful 2D animation...

...this beguiling, bittersweet tale has a bruised maturity that some of the more overtly fantastic Ghibli stories are lacking.

...a bittersweet sayonara for the studio.

There’s a lovely and fitting simplicity in 12-year-old Anna emerging as the heroine of When Marnie Was There, the last film from Japan’s Studio Ghibli animation house.

The gentle, unforced charm of the animation feels like the very best of book illustration come to miraculous life, but with a strong, almost Hitchcockian streak of excitement and danger.