Voices Of A Distant Star [DVD] [2002]

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-02-16 rating:
Voices of a Distant Star
`Voices of A Distant Star' is a short animation produced entirely on the directors home computer. For this reason alone the animation and artwork seems especially rich and impressive. Light music flows almost constantly underneath the story and the English dubbing is pretty good. The story follows a female pilot who goes into space and who communicates via text messages which take longer and longer to reach her boyfriend as she goes deeper into space. Essentially it is a love story with a futuristic setting. It is very short, but well thought out and executed and is good if you fancy some anime but don't want a full length feature. The extras are pretty good as well. Worth a look if you're a fan of japanimation.

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review by: date: 2008-08-12 rating:
piece of crap
I am sorry but this film is: br / br /pointless br /poorly animated br /CG effects are primitive br /story is at best over-boring br / br /good luck for people who purchased it like me.

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review by: date: 2008-07-05 rating:
Nothing special
The animation is OK, the music standard fare, the story just silly. Too many anime cliches and logic-holes. br /That's all I have to say.

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review by: He's the strongest, he's the quickest, he's the best! date: 2008-06-14 rating:
What light through yonder window breaks?
At only half an hour long, this short film manages to be more poignant and emotional than many films three times this length. br / br /The film explores a (very, and increasingly) long distance relationship between two childhood sweethearts. Communicating only through text message whilst the girl (Mikako) begins a career in the military fighting an alien race called the Tarsians, the length it takes for her messages to reach her boyfriend Noboru increases exponentially as the distance between them becomes greater. br / br /Before long the messages are taking over 8 years to reach their target, and our Romeo and Juliet are trying to deal with moving on with their lives but simply can't. Their attention lays focussed with their mobile phones, never knowing when another message might arrive - that after years it could throw them into emotional disarray. The angst at waiting for the next message, never knowing if there will ever be any more is painful to watch. You can't help but feel for the pair. Mikako longs for simple moments - to eat ice-cream with Noboru in the bus shelter whilst it rains, and Noboru tortures himself with desperate anticipation of another message. br / br /In a nutshell: Sci-Fi has never been so lovelorn. I mentioned Romeo and Juliet just a moment ago, and if Shakespeare were with us today then this is the sort of stuff he'd be producing. Brilliantly unbearable and beautiful. Although this is a short film, you feel totally immersed. And though the sci-fi may seem distanced from real life, the scenes back home are realistic. After this film finished I still thought about the pair and hoped that they would be reunited. A masterpiece. br / br /A disappointing lack of any additional features, but that doesn't take away from a fantastic piece of work.


review by: date: 2008-01-09 rating:
Beautiful
The animation is lovely, the music is amazing, the story is touching, the characters are sympathetic and the whole thing is perfectly timed and scripted to produce an enigmatic and beautiful piece of art. So what that it's only half an hour long? It's perfect.

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