'Little Amélie or the Character of Rain' Review: The Best Coming-of-Age Story in Ages

It’s difficult to capture the totality of a child’s expansive and dynamic imagination on-screen, but directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han miraculously succeed with their animated gem, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain. It’s a film with a distinctive and fresh animation style, evoking the majestic and picturesque aesthetic of French paintings and Japanese calligraphy, that tells an empathetic story of what it means to have to say goodbye to the formative spaces and people who have helped shape your sense of identity. It’s not easy to let go, but the film reminds us that so long as we stoke the fires of memory, we’ll never lose the people, places, and experiences that have made us.

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