Miyazaki’s Ponyo gets only 243 screens nationwide and a very good press. It’s still amazing to see how Miyazaki has become a well-established director, always acclaimed, when only 10 years ago nobody was interested by his films in France (Japanese Animation was considered to be stupid and violent – read more about it, in french).
So, Positif says it’s a “plea for tolerance, a cosmic celebration“, according to Elle it’s “a new gorgeous ecological love story“. Dvdrama writes “a constant amazement, an incredibly coherent story” and Les Inrocks remarks the “emotional accuracy“. But for Le monde “it doesn’t reach the beauty of Spirited Away, Mononoke or Totoro. It doesn’t have the darkness or complexity that made his previous films but it’s still a real cinema pleasure“
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Ten years ? C’mon pal… Five years…
You can’t imagine how relieved I am: DVDrama, Les Inrocks & Le Monde loved the movie ! (sights)
Mass media and spectators are the same: .call it hype, buzz or whatever you want…
The only difference between ‘em is the usual printed blah blah blah.
They’re forced to do so.
You know the story: the blind leads the blind.
And, while eeeeeverybody, from “white collar” papa to little “shojo manga” sister, “house wife” mama to
big “wannabee japanese” brother applauds Myazaki’s, Takahata seems to be simply put aside…
Press or web coverage don’t mean sh*t.
And it has made the best opening in Paris today at 2pm:
- 2 145 tickets on 17 screens,
- while Fast & Furious did only 1657 tickets with the same number of theaters.
Tomorrow we’ll get the nationwide numbers, but with 472 screens Fast & Furious should be in front of Ponyo.