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504. Gauche the Cellist (1982)

Hello, everyone! At long last, I’m finally back from the dead, though since I live in Mississippi I believe technically I’m still in hell. During my absence, a lot has happened – jail, a mental hospital, moving to Mississippi, covid, love, heartbreak, plus some other stuff I’m sure I’ve forgotten about. I moved into a Ford F-150 and found a home for my beloved cat Satan, where he’s very happy, though I miss him all the time. I’m also in two bands now, Rong and the Marlboro Pinks, which you can hear on my YouTube page, if that’s of interest to you.

Through all this I basically quit watching movies altogether, but now that I’m sleeping on the floor of our practice room, where I have wifi, and my cousin has gifted me a newer and less-fucked-up laptop than the one I’ve been using for the past six years, I figured it was finally time to toe the grindstone, put my nose to the line, and get back to work on this project.

This is the first animated movie I’ve watched to review in my new home, and other than the setting in which I watched it, it isn’t particularly memorable or interesting, save for a few trippy shots. It tells the story of a semi-competent cello player in a rural town in Japan, who suffers nightly visits from talking animals who critique his music (a malady which reminds me a little of one of my friends here in Hattiesburg.) Set sometime around the turn of the century (if I had to guess, 1920s to 1940s), a lot of the movie focuses on lingering pastoral scenes, not unlike some Studio Ghibli features. Overall it feels a lot like a Ghibli movie – not one of the cool ones, but one of the newer, boring ones.