Millennium Actress is easily the sleeper-hit of modern Anime. Very unlike Satoshi Kon's previous masterpiece, Perfect Blue, and yet similar in the sense that it is not a conventional Anime feature, Millennium Actress is the latest offering from one of Anime's quiet masters. Satoshi Kon's animated and directoral style has matured in a big way, and the fast-edits, obscure angles and incredibly rich colours used to convey the dream/memory sequences bordered on perfection. Blending seamlessly through modern-day reality, cinema, fiction and history, Kon tells the life story of an actress, very much designed to make us reflect upon our own. The story was incredibly moving; one of those films where you leave the cinema and wander around for an hour or so in heavy contemplation-mode.
Loved the obligatory head nods to classic cinema greats.
Millennium Actress is a heart-warming journey through cinema, life, love, loss and acceptance of one's fate.
Loved the obligatory head nods to classic cinema greats.
Millennium Actress is a heart-warming journey through cinema, life, love, loss and acceptance of one's fate.