Arrietty
Ravishingly colourful and textured, animation doesn’t get better than Arrietty - an adaptation of English author Mary Norton’s “The Borrowers” first published in the 50s. The characters are a family of little people, about 10cm high, who live under the floorboards and “borrow” all kinds of household objects from the house.
One day tiny fourteen-year-old Arrietty casually meets the young Sho, a human boy who has come to convalesce in his old granny’s home, and it’s love at first sight, despite their size differences. Arrietty is simply gorgeous, embracing the ravishing colour of garden flowers, wildly sprouting vines, the perfection of a raindrop on a leaf.
Animation simply doesn’t get any better than Ghibli’s ravishing creation: when you have this much talent, who needs 3D?
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