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Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb’s recollections about spending her early years in Japan inspired her 2000 novel, “The Character of Rain,” the basis for a lovely and touching French-language animated ...

Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which follows a 2-year-old girl growing up in Japan in the 1960s. By Jordan Mintzer ...

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Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s Amélie Nothomb adaptation is a short and splendidly animated story about balancing the joy of discovery with the pain of grief. For one thing, its chubby-cheeked ...

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