First published by Little White Lies Interviews don’t always go as you hope and expect they will. This conversation with Yoshiura Yasuhiro, conducted awkwardly through an interpreter just before the theatrical release of his anime Patema Inverted, had so many false starts and misunderstandings that towards the end of our alloted time I was losing…
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Patema Inverted (2013)
Longer version of review first published in LittleWhiteLies As a genre which reflects and defamiliarises everyday societal tensions through a glass darkly, dystopian fiction is always inverting the world as we know it – but in feature anime Patema Inverted, written and directed by Yoshiura Yasuhiro (Time of Eve), the inverted world assumes an unusually…