This was a very pretty film, very clean animation, and exactly what I expected from Studio Ghibli. Anna (Sara Takatsuki) is a lonely, depressed foster child desperate for connections but just unable to establish them. She is sent by her adoptive mother to the country for the summer, in the hopes the cleaner air will help with Anna's asthma. While there, the little girl makes a secret friend in Marnie (Kasumi Arimura), a mysterious child living in a mansion only accessible at low tide. The more Anna finds out about Marnie, however, the stranger situations seem.
Honestly, I'm probably not going to remember any but the vaguest details about this movie this time next year. It's elegantly drawn but there was nothing in it that really gripped me.
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