Film · 2004 · Anime
Howl's Moving Castle
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
2004
Japan
★ 6.6 editorial score
Miyazaki's most beautiful machine is a walking house held together by magic and bad temper: underneath the wonder is an angry anti-war film, made while he watched the invasion of Iraq.
“In the best moments of "Howl's Moving Castle" and in his extraordinary body of work, Miyazaki teaches his viewers more valuable lessons: that cultivating a kind of meditative dreaminess is important, that logic is fallible and often benefits from surrendering to instinct, that hushed visual beauty is a treasure unto itself.”
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