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Mum Is Pouring Rain is a short film that perfectly sums up the magical realism genre and uses it to tell a simple but very important story. It talks about the maturity of children, the growth and understanding that come with age, and the importance of being children again once they are adults.

Worked in paint contrasting warm and icy colors, the short film has a simple, insolent and innocent humor throughout its duration, taking its childish protagonist through adventures that will make her mature between dreamlike and neat sets, light atmospheres, complete and endearing characters... alive and realistically embodied.

Mum Is Pouring Rain is heavily inspired by Studio Ghibli and yet manages to stand out on its own, mixing everything we love about Ghibli (the omnipresence of vegetation, the dreaminess between scenes, the maturity reached), and adding a good handful of of apple magic, flights with Cloclo and time travel between the tolling of the bells.

The character of Jane, in her anger and anguish, is touching and it hurts a little. She is in a place that she doesn't like, not understanding why and forced to believe that it is for the best. Depression is hitting the core of her, her family, but in the wise words of her grandmother, depression is not a fatality, but rather a condition that can be overcome. Janey then grows, changes, finds advantages, friends, hobbies and most importantly, love everywhere.

The animation is most beautiful and imaginative: Jane's "living" hair, the dynamism of the animated environments, the gestures of the characters, etc. Mum Is Pouring Rain is a beautiful, moving and beautiful story.