Director: Yonebayashi Hiromasa
Scriptwriter: Miyazaki Hayao, Niwa Keiko d’après le roman de Mary Norton
Cinematographer: Okiu Atsushi
Editing: Matsuhara Rie
Music: Cécile Corbel
Voice Cast: Adeline Chetail, Thomas Sagols, P.F. Pistorio, Michelle Bardolet, Brigitte Virtudes
Production:
Studio Ghibli
Distribution:
Walt Disney Company France
25 quai Panhard et Levassor
CS 91378
75 644 Paris cedex 13
France
Tel: 0033 1 73 26 50 00
www.disneyboxoffice.com
Year: 2010
DCP, Colour, 95 min
French Version
Twelve-year-old Shô is a puny sick boy who goes to live with his grand-mother and her servant to rest before a serious heart operation. The two old ladies stay in an ancient house with a rather neglected garden, in the western part of Tokyo. In the same place, under the wooden floor, a whole family of beings hardly a few centimeters high is also staying: father Pod, mother Homily, and their fourteen-year old daughter Arrietty. Their rule is not to be seen by human beings of a normal size. However, the boy soon meets Arrietty. This is the beginning of a juvenile romance and the girl will have to be very brave to keep her friendly relationship with the boy belonging to the kingdom of human beings: this is strictly forbidden by her people considering it endangers their unassuming survival.
“I hope this film will be a comfort and encouragement to the people going through difficult, chaotic and uncertain times.” Hayao Miyazaki.
“Just as the other heroines born at Ghibli, Arrietty has a true environmental awareness and knows how to overcome her weakness to defend her values and to grow”, says producer Toshio Suzuki.
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