Review of Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018) by David L — 30 Nov 2018

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms most certainly is immensely rushed in its pace and overly ambitious and complicated for its own sake, but still I admired the wonderful world they created here and the extraordinary, gorgeous looking, very polished animation.

The theme of motherhood drives the movie and is the heart of it while the characters are also very well developed and the third act is quite emotional. It's a feminist film done well and not too on-the-nose owing to its very sophisticated script that admirably favors real human drama instead of constant action.