Little Amelie or The Character of Rain
Feb. 15th, 2026 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrWe had a fun Saturday last Saturday and watched Little Amelie or The Character of Rain, a French-Japanese co-production at one of the indie theatres. It's a lovely and vibrant story about life for a Belgian family living in Japan in 1969.
I really enjoyed the beautiful colours--it felt like an antidote to all the greige we experience these days--and the simple story of love and friendship almost had me in tears at the end. Amelie exists in a vegetative state as a baby until an earthquake awakens her, and, now with a busy household with three children, Amelie's parents hire a housekeeper and nanny, Nishio.
It's not a traditional Western cartoon with a typical story arc, and the ending felt rather abrupt as such, but I also was so engrossed in the colourful world I didn't want it to end, TBH!
I really enjoyed the beautiful colours--it felt like an antidote to all the greige we experience these days--and the simple story of love and friendship almost had me in tears at the end. Amelie exists in a vegetative state as a baby until an earthquake awakens her, and, now with a busy household with three children, Amelie's parents hire a housekeeper and nanny, Nishio.
It's not a traditional Western cartoon with a typical story arc, and the ending felt rather abrupt as such, but I also was so engrossed in the colourful world I didn't want it to end, TBH!
