Weathering with You
- warm
- tender
Warm, kinetic, measured animation / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Our read · Weathering with You (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · romance · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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