Synopsis
Princess Arete (アリーテ姫, 2001) — a Studio 4°C animated film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Sunao Katabuchi and based on Diana Coles' novel The Clever Princess. Arete's father the king has locked her in a tower and promised her hand to whichever knight brings back the most powerful magical relic. She has no interest in any of it.
She slips out of the palace when she can, watches villagers at work, reads books hidden under her mattress. When the sorcerer Boax arrives in a flying machine and takes her to his castle, he expects a compliant princess. Arete's actual intelligence catches him off guard — and that's what the film turns on. Katabuchi made this seventeen years before In This Corner of the World; the patience and emotional precision were already in place. Stream Princess Arete (2001) on iFILM.
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