Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Actually, I'm not a critic, but I liked the story. It was a great experience. I would recommend anyone to watch the movie

I enjoyed this film as a piece of anime fantasy escapism, in these troubling times. Its got an almost medieval setting to it and thematically it reminded me a little of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and also of Violet Evergarden, with loneliness being a key theme - that and displacement. As ever with such an anime film, the quality of the seemingly 2D animation is quite remarkable and I particularly liked the scenes which showed more traditional animation but with a 3D element, such as it seeming as if the camera is swooping through (sometimes quite vibrantly colourful) landscapes. Its quite an engrossing watch in a sense. I appreciate how honest the main character is, to other characters and I'd say the dialogue/script is quite good. It's perhaps a little sentimental for some but I certainly enjoyed it overall - I also liked the music played in the background of some scenes, including harp music. It adds to the overall atmosphere. I enjoyed this film and I would recommend it to others, yes.

I forgot the last time I feel something watching a movie, but Maquia made me feel something its a rollercoaster of emotions, the screenwrite and direction of art is awesome, and the final scene is just pure art, it fails a little bit in some parts but overall it's a great film that even if you didn't like this tipe of filmography

The emotional strength of motherhood (mother-son in this case) is prominent in "Maquia", but the haphazard fantasy plot and heavy handed moments dour the interpreted beauty.

Definitely one of the worst movies I've seen. It's the story about a girl who is destined to live centuries and therefore end up losing any person she grows attached to. Still a teenager, she meets a newborn orphan and adopts him in spite of all difficulties, but she remains the same as he grows, with a war threatening to destroy their whole world. The premise is not too bad, but the execution... oh boy! So, imagine a story that develops along decades. It could work with strongly developed characters, drama and emotions, but in this case it's like a director randomly picked up the stupidest moments, concentrating only on scenes where someone is whining for the most idiotic reasons. Seriously, every f***ing minute there is someone bawling, while the story is forgotten, the characters are barely sketched and then immediately abandoned. It's impossible to care for anyone, since you don't get to know them. Characters are introduced in two seconds and then those idiotic, maudlin scenes start again. The war? Apparently it's fought by a couple dozen people on either side and lasts two whole minutes before it's over. Really, this is a tear-fest where everyone keeps crying all the time, but everything else is sorely lacking. Without a solid infrastructure, the drama falls flat on its face. Gotta admit that the horrible dubbing in my language gets a good part of the blame. They picked a super whiny, querulous, grating voice actress for the protagonist, so that every time she spoke, usually between sobs, I felt like my brain was hemorrhaging. Why 2 and not zero? In other languages, with better voice actors, it will still be abysmal but maybe a little less excruciating.