Product description

Voices Of A Distant Star [2002]

Price: £8.53
RRP: £15.99
Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 0702727038624
Label : Adv Films
Manufacturer : Adv Films
Publisher : Adv Films
Release date : 2003-11-17
Title : Voices Of A Distant Star [2002]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2002-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 30
Studio : Adv Films
Theatrical releaseDate : 2002
MPN : 1

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-12 rating:

piece of crap
I am sorry but this film is:

pointless
poorly animated
CG effects are primitive
story is at best over-boring

good luck for people who purchased it like me.

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.
That's all I have to say.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

review by: Nintengirl date: 2007-06-18 rating:

Almost a classic
I was a little put-off by the fact the actual film is 25 mintutes long, but I'm glad I took the time to watch it: it actually seemed a lot longer than it was, and the story is very sweet and simple, and didn't really need to be a long film. The only problem I had with the plot was the ending: everything seemed to get a little too emotional and left a lot of questions un-answered (eg. why the alien morph into her?). The CG sequences are very slick and looked great, but some of the character animation at the beginning was a little bit basic, but that's the only thing I can critise about it. The soundtrack was very good. But the best thing about the disc was the animated short 'She and her cat', which I found better than the main feature. I was just seemed much more
'complete'. A single interview, trailers, originally voiced cut and THREE versions of 'She and her cat' justifys the price of the disc, and I would recommend this title for any anime collection.

Similar products

The Place Promised In Our Early Days [2004]
Appleseed
Tokyo Godfathers [2003]
Paprika [2006]
Tekkonkinkreet

Similar categories