A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in. The key was given to her as a teenager by a painter and revolutionary that she helped to escape the police. She becomes an actress ... (Full plot summary below)
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A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in. The key was given to her as a teenager by a painter and revolutionary that she helped to escape the police. She becomes an actress because it will make it possible to track him down, and she spends the next several decades acting out that search in various genres and eras.
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| AV ClubTasha RobinsonAnimated in much the same style as "Perfect Blue," but with greater depth and a more elaborate sense of playfulness, Millennium Actress is a visual feast, but also a mental gymnastics routine. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeA winning combination of humor, emotional resonance and striking, indelible imagery. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezBehold Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon's anime answer to Mulholland Drive. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawLike Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress is about living with ghosts, but where the one is all shadow, Millennium Actress is all alight. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonKon and co-writer Sadayuki Murai's cleverly slippery story bursts with real passion, overcoming the lack of technical achievement. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatMillennium Actress is an enchanting Japanese animated film about a woman whose life is propelled by the yearning in her heart for a mysterious stranger. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordThis wonderfully unique film is classic anime, but its story is so ingenious, it seems a genre unto itself. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonInsofar as the movie recreates Japanese film history, it's as a means of exploring history more generally. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)Brian GibsonA chase film that's chasing after films. All the world's a set as cinema and reality thrillingly blur in this second feature from Satoshi Kon. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayPaints a vivid portrait, blending pathos and unrequited love with a rich collage of Japanese history |
