For both of them, being there is a misdemeanor. The boy skips school, and the woman her work; the boy sketches his veiled dreams, and the woman eats chocolates and washes them down with beer. After their initial contact, both of them look forward for the rainy days that will ensure their meeting inside the park. The chance encounter has been transformed into an important bond and the gazebo no longer shelters them from the rain, but from an everyday life they are ill-equipped to face.
For better or for worse, life's insurmountable power has more than enough strength to dispel our sheltering illusions, and then triteness takes over. But the one thing that life loves more than eradicating the niche shelters humans find for themselves, is displaying her unpredictability to the same humans as an ultimate exhibition of control. Our protagonists are separated by the triteness and find each other again, when the biggest of the woman's mysteries surfaces. At this point, psyche's floodgates will open, and their emotions will deluge.
A review of this movie cannot be complete without a mention of the stunning animation. Its beauty is unparalleled; finally a movie that can surpass the Ghibli films of almost three decades ago.
For such a short film, it manages to study two the main characters meticulously and depict their complicated relationship with accuracy and beauty, all the while being supported by the spectacular animation. Beauty all around. 8.0/10.
