Pompo: The Cinéphile
Feb. 19th, 2023 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingPompo The Cinéphile (available on YouTube here) is an anime movie about an aspiring director who makes a debut movie that is exactly 90 minutes long.
Pompo The Cinéphile is set in Nyallywood. The main characters are drawn with a cute anime style, while the supporting cast is drawn in a more realistic style. This necessitates a moderate level of suspension of disbelief. For example, the genius film producer "Pompo" is actually named Joel Davidovich, and why he?/she? is stylized as a cute anime girl is just something you're going to have to roll with. Meanwhile, the aspiring director Gene Fini uses some of the most overtly Japanese body language I've ever seen in an anime, even though he (and everyone else in the movie) is supposed to be American. This is also not something you should worry about.
I have to be honest and admit that the first and last ten minutes are rough. In the first ten minutes, we follow the genius producer Pompo as she works on the set of a summer monster movie, and there are a lot of tits, ass, and panty shots played for laughs. In the last ten minutes, a few characters give earnest and impassioned anime-boy speeches while nondiegetic pop music plays in the background, and this was so cringe that I had to mute the sound while reading the subtitles at 2x speed. Thankfully, everything in between is relatively chill and interesting.
If you don't think about anything too hard, Pompo The Cinéphile is a really fun movie. It reminds me a lot of the Satoshi Kon movie Paprika, in that it's very meta and very stylish and very beautifully animated. Unlike Paprika, Pompo The Cinéphile is a comedy. I'm not sure that kids are the target audience, but there's zero murder and no sexuality (aside from the childish jokes at the beginning). Also, Pompo The Cinéphile is 100% correct about 90 minutes being the perfect length for a movie, and it's exactly 90 minutes long itself. Bless.
Pompo The Cinéphile is set in Nyallywood. The main characters are drawn with a cute anime style, while the supporting cast is drawn in a more realistic style. This necessitates a moderate level of suspension of disbelief. For example, the genius film producer "Pompo" is actually named Joel Davidovich, and why he?/she? is stylized as a cute anime girl is just something you're going to have to roll with. Meanwhile, the aspiring director Gene Fini uses some of the most overtly Japanese body language I've ever seen in an anime, even though he (and everyone else in the movie) is supposed to be American. This is also not something you should worry about.
I have to be honest and admit that the first and last ten minutes are rough. In the first ten minutes, we follow the genius producer Pompo as she works on the set of a summer monster movie, and there are a lot of tits, ass, and panty shots played for laughs. In the last ten minutes, a few characters give earnest and impassioned anime-boy speeches while nondiegetic pop music plays in the background, and this was so cringe that I had to mute the sound while reading the subtitles at 2x speed. Thankfully, everything in between is relatively chill and interesting.
If you don't think about anything too hard, Pompo The Cinéphile is a really fun movie. It reminds me a lot of the Satoshi Kon movie Paprika, in that it's very meta and very stylish and very beautifully animated. Unlike Paprika, Pompo The Cinéphile is a comedy. I'm not sure that kids are the target audience, but there's zero murder and no sexuality (aside from the childish jokes at the beginning). Also, Pompo The Cinéphile is 100% correct about 90 minutes being the perfect length for a movie, and it's exactly 90 minutes long itself. Bless.
