Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure

Christian theology becomes an unsettling and visually ravishing mystery in early film from the Ghost in the Shell director This 1985 anime is a true curio: a furtive, portentous odyssey into a hollowed-out landscape told largely in symbolist images. A million miles away from director Mamoru Oshii’s often-logorrheic films (such as his best-known work, Ghost in the Shell from 1995), it still swills around plenty of philosophical concepts linked to his fascination with Christian theology. But like the egg being lugged around by the film’s nameless female protagonist, or the giant fish shadows swi

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