The Colors Within (2024) (2024)

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• Review by SouchieeBlanc ★★★★ 6

  POV: You want to talk about struggling with being lesbian in a catholic environment but you're a japanese director

• Review by ChrisStuckmann

  A gorgeous film with dazzlingly human character animations. Seriously, this is next level work from Science Saru. There’s one ballet sequence that’s mind-blowing in its clarity of movement. I can’t even imagine how long it took them to animate that. The songs are super catchy, and the score is beautiful. It’s an adorably sweet journey that leaves you with a warm feeling akin to a peaceful stroll in the park with your best friends.

• Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★½

  no but why is that planets amen song actually such a banger

• Review by Vishal_17 ★★★★

  New film by the director of Silent Voice, this one stands out for its sincerity and authenticity. Centered on three friends, the film beautifully captures the essence of their bond with infectious energy that lights up every scene they share. Avoiding melodrama, it lets the characters’ natural interactions drive the emotions. Perfectly portrays young individuals navigating the journey of self-discovery and finding their unique voice.

• Review by Alicia Haddick ★★★★½ 1

  Naoko Yamada is back and how I have missed her touch.

  So many ways to consider and understand this work. Coming-of-age about finding your color in the tapestry of life, and how it comes not only from self-belief but a belief and co-existence and joy of being with and embracing others/the world around you? Creativity as an outlet for expressing the self and letting yourself loose on the world with an inner truth? A queer awakening where music becomes a tool for exploring those feelings when the pressures of religion and the environment around you struggle to give you that place to explore such feelings?

  Many such ways to interpret this work, but what it comes down to is this…

• Review by Jake Cole ★★★★½

  The blend of naturalistic line drawing, childlike impressionist color blotches, and the occasional sharp detail of a close-up (especially eyes) beautifully renders the muddled perspective of a child coming of age and processing the world at a developmental crossroads. Tack on its appealingly no-stakes narrative of realistically lonely, awkward kids finding self- and mutual affirmation in starting a band and finding an outlet to express their half-formed, half-understood thoughts and you end up with one of the most exceedingly lovely films in years. Form and function are perfectly in sync to make you feel these characters inching their way toward understanding themselves and resisting, however gently and respectfully, the expectations laid upon them by elders.

• Review by Max C. @ LIAF ★★★★ 1

  a deeply autistic film

• Review by Mihir Nanda ★★★½

  I am in the minority when I say I don't like A Silent Voice. Having said that, I obviously wasn't too keen on seeing this new feature by the same director but I have been colored surprised.
  Read my complete review here.

• Review by Dommy ★★★½

  LGBT but the T stands for The otherworldly power of the Theremin

• Review by yaelpollie ★★★½ 1

  I just wanna say that "Sui Kin Chi Ka Moku Dotten Amen" is a bop of a song!

• Review by RAHUL 🥂 ★★★★ 4

  I'm afraid I've developed a weird comfort in watching films alone in an empty theatre.

• Review by TurquoiseYoshi ★★★★★

  world's first band powered exclusively by bisexuality and catholic guilt