Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

[Played July 30 via Eventbrite and available on various VOD platforms.] Absolutely gorgeous animation dominates Mari Okada's poignant, colorful, imaginative, bittersweet, heartbreaking, 115-minute, 2018 anime fantasy film about motherly love and the journey of a 15-year-old, immortal, Japanese tapestry weaver (voiceover by Manaka Iwami) who escapes with her life after soldiers attack her Lolph village, kidnap her beautiful friend (voiceover by Ai Kayano) who is forced to marry a prince (voiceover by Tomokazu Sugita) who believes her blood will give their kingdom citizens long life, and raises a boy (voiceover by Miyu Irino) whose mother she found dead as her own but eventually their relationship becomes strained as he ages and she does not.
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