It’s bound to make you cry! Typical of Ghibli, Anna is shown to be strong, independent and wilful. Showing how it is to be in an awkward in-between age and not knowing where you truly belong, and how your supposed to feel. As it progresses there is a much deeper message. The story initially seems typical of the ghost story genre which can be initially confusing. On arriving to stay with her family she finds herself intrigued by an abandoned marsh house which is claimed to be haunted, Anna finds herself being drawn to the house and decides to visit when she discovers Marine, a mysteriously beautiful girl who she can only see. The film is focused around socially anxious 12 year old Anna, voiced by Hailee Steinfeld, who is sent to visit distant relatives of her overly protective foster mother for a summer, in order to improve her asthma and overcome her cripplingly low self- esteem issues. The film is the second film from Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and is a beautifully told coming of age story, based on the novel by Joan G Robinson Studio Ghibli’s latest film, When Marnie Was There, is to be it’s last for some time, following the recent announcement of its hiatus. She is internationally renowned for her TEDDY ROBINSON books.'When Marnie Was There' Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi Having always wanted to be an illustrator, she began with fourteen books for small children, and later moved on to older children’s fiction. She went to seven schools, but passed no exams. The second of four children of barrister parents, Joan Robinson spent her early childhood in Hampstead Garden Suburb. “Extraordinarily potent fantasy… the climax is both thrilling and intensely moving.” “Beautifully planned, hauntingly written, these chapters hold a thrilling intensity… The most striking novel in its genre since Tom’s Midnight Garden” But no sooner has Anna learned the loveliness of friendship than Marnie vanishes… She never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, someone who doesn’t judge Anna for being ordinary and not-even-trying. Sent away from her foster home one long, hot summer to a sleepy Norfolk village by the sea, Anna dreams her days away among the sandhills and marshes.

But Marnie isn’t all she seems…Ī major motion picture adaptation by Studio Ghibli, creators of SPIRITED AWAY and ARRIETTY. Anna hasn’t a friend in the world – until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes.

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