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[mneme]

If you have time today, do see this. It's very good -- a beautiful quasi-animated fantasy story combining modern drama and dream logic. And Dave McKean's art takes on entirely new and interesting qualities when animated, becoming more interestingly horrific and more beautiful.

But the theatres have -no- idea what they have. Based on the previews (only one of which was the least bit appropriate, that being Pride and Prejudice), they seem to think this is a teen romance or family drama, whereas in fact they have a Labrynth-like (but darker, and with art instead of song) fantasy movie in their hands. So just in case they completely mishandle it, see it in the big theatres before it's -gone-.

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[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Around here, it's not in the big theaters yet. So far, in the entire Balto-Washingtonia, we found one theater (an arts one, at that) that opened it. I know at least one more theater will start next week.

I didn't find it at all "modern drama", though. To my eye, it was a very, very classically archetypal story (with a thin modern shell).

But yes, the art...

[mneme]

You are correct -- "drama" isn't really appropriate, but given how much the teen angst is woven in with the fantasy, I wasn't sure what was. Maybe just that -- "teen angst"?