It is here in the forest where Maquia finds an orphan child in the arms of her murdered mother. Amidst the panic of the Mezarte invasion a lonely young lolf girl named Maquia gets dragged away from her home by a red-eyed dragon and is dropped in an unfamiliar forested area far, far away from her ransacked home. Yet it is not Leilia’s captive story that we follow with most interest. The Mezarte use the might of their red-eyed dragons to overwhelm the lolf and kidnap Leilia, a beautiful girl whom the King of Mezarte intends on forcing into their bloodline to strengthen their grip on this world. The lolf’s passive lifestyle and intrinsic innocence means they are prime targets for attack from the Mezarte, a conquering country led by a Tudor-style monarch. These mythical people stop ageing in their mid-teens and spend the majority of their time weaving traditional fabrics. Okada’s film begins in an idyllic, heavenly setting inhabited by a clan of people named the lolf. The confrontation of such a harsh occurrence leaves the door open to an exploration of family, responsibility and legacy in a wondrous animation to rival last year’s hit anime Your Name. In Mari Okada’s debut feature, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, mythical forces mean this paternal fear will almost certainly be actualised. An event that cruelly goes against the gentle generation-to-generation current of life. THE thought of out-living one of your children is something many parents dare not contemplate.
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