Wolf Children - film review

In this simple animated fairytale, a shy Tokyo student mates with a wolfman, has two kids and then moves to the mountains
25 October 2013

Mamoru Hosoda's gorgeously drawn cartoon is a gently bizarre hybrid of My Neighbour Totoro, Twilight and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. A shy, Tokyo student mates with a wolfman, has two kids and (when he is accidentally killed) finds herself overwhelmed by her different offspring. So they move to the mountains, yet problems remain. You can see young Yuki and Ame's wolfishness as a metaphor for all kinds of oddness, including autism. You might see an eco-message in their mother's attempts, with the support of her farmer neighbours, to be self-sufficient. But the film works as the simplest of fairy tales, so scrumptious you'll want to devour it whole.

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