![]() ![]() The animation here is dazzling: wheat glows golden in the fields a dog bounds with the bliss of being able to run free on a warm day. (Maquia prises open his mother’s fingers, stiff with rigor mortis, one bone crunch at a time.) Adopting the boy – a child raising a child – Maquia moves to a sleepy village. Abandoned in a field, she finds a human baby, the only survivor of a massacre. The story’s heroine is Maquia, a melancholy lorph snatched during a raid by soldiers. Maquia is a female-centred story focusing on a blond-haired race of ethereal waifs called lorphs, who live for hundreds of years peacefully weaving tapestries (they strongly resemble the elves from The Lord of the Rings and, confusingly, all look alike). Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms English-Language Version Escaping war, a young girl finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son. Heart-meltingly lovely in places, with some cracking battle scenes, her film is set in a universe of dragons, ancient clans and medieval-looking armies familiar from JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin. With this ambitious debut, Mari Okada – a woman directing in the predominantly male business of Japanese anime – proves Nishimura wrong. Talking to the Guardian, he blundered on about women being the realistic sex and not idealistic enough for fantasy. A couple of years ago, Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura brushed aside the idea of hiring a female director at the legendary studio. ![]()
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