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Wind Rises, The (PG)

Wind Rises, The (PG)

Animation, Biography, Drama

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

More information on this production is available at www.studiocanal.co.uk.

The critical consensus

The Wind Rises is an engaging, deeply moving and mature film that exudes intelligence and compassion.

****(*)Eddie Harrison, The List, 21/04/2014

While Miyazaki’s two-hour-long, historical-melodrama swansong is destined to be his most divisive film yet, it is also his most adult and interesting, and never less than visually breathtaking throughout.

****(*)Dan Jolin, Empire Online, 05/05/2014

Gorgeously evocative visuals, lots about Horikoshi’s devoted wife, but a marked reluctance to engage too deeply with the deadly purpose of his beautiful aircraft.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 04/05/2014

The desecration of beautiful dreams is a ghost always lurking.

****(*)Josh Slater-Williams, The Skinny, 05/05/2014

If The Wind Rises is Miyazaki’s final feature, it marks a suitably rich and strange exit for one of the giants of Japanese cinema.

Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 08/05/2014

There is a real emotional charge in this life story of a Japanese pioneer. It is not too fanciful to link Miyazaki's own artistry with this young engineer, passionately reaching for the sky.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 08/05/2014

It isn’t hard to discern a self-portrait in this beautiful, beguiling tale.

****(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 09/05/2014

Unlike any Studio Ghibli movie. Unlike any animated movie. Strange and heartbreaking. The one that Miyazaki will be remembered for.

David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 08/05/2014

Hayao Miyazaki’s 11th and final film sees the Studio Ghibli founder go out with more of a whimper than a bang.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 10/05/2014

Fans of Miyazaki will see clear autobiographical elements in this depiction of a man devoted to a dream at any cost, an obsession which he himself admits possesses "an element of madness… yearning for something too beautiful can ruin you". On this evidence, it has done quite the opposite.

****(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 11/05/2014

Where and when?

Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday May 23, 2014, until Thursday June 5, 2014. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday June 6, 2014, until Thursday June 12, 2014. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

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