Introverted and lonely, Anna worries her adoptive parents, powerless in dealing with her increasingly disturbing behavior. They decide to send her off to revitalize with faraway parents in a small village by the sea. During her walks alone, she discovers a large estate in the heart of a marsh. Attracted by the isolated manor, she explores it and discovers Marnie, a young girl who suffers from the solitude imposed on her by her rich parents…

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Even though Hayao Miyazaki said goodbye to cinema with The Wind Rises a few months ago, Ghibli studios continue to make films. As proof: in the wake of The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, here comes When Marnie Was There by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the director of The Secret World of Arrietty. At this stage, the Japanese animation machinery has not offered any new sensations. The audiences targeted by this movie will easily be conquered by the story about children left to themselves facing both hard reality and sweet dreams, while everyone else will have a hard time with sentimentality that is indigestible because it is so systematic. The magic only works in about half of Ghibli’s productions, which is very, very far from the fabulous and incomparable poetry of the classics in its catalogue.