• A surfer girl and the ghost of her companion who died at sea are the heroes of "Ride Your Wave".

  • Masaaki Yuasa, Japanese director of "Lou and the Sirens Island", signs this film discovered at the Annecy Festival.

  • Water is a character in its own right in this film, which is as beautiful as it is moving.

But what an idea and what a beautiful animated film! 

Ride Your Wave

by Masaaki Yuasa, discovered at the Annecy Festival, is a marvel of poetry.

The director of

Lou and the Sirens Island

features a young surfer who sees her boyfriend appear in the water after he drowned.

“Surfers often compare waves to life, and if you want my opinion, we meet a lot of waves, we go a long way with them, and at some point in our existence, we end up finding the best one”, explains the filmmaker at

20 Minutes

.

Between assumed melodrama and ode to life, this Anime moves deeply with its aquatic romance.

Water in all its forms

The heroine, inconsolable after losing her companion, dialogues with her ghost which materializes even in the toilet bowl. "If it takes a message, it would be that even the most mundane action of everyday life can comfort someone," says Masaaki Yuasa. The painful work of mourning accomplished by a young woman full of life breaks the heart of the spectator who learns to heal at the same time as her.

Water is a character in its own right in 

Ride Your Wave.

Whether it is sea water or the content of a glass, it fascinates, worries or seduces.

"Water has no definite shape, it has countless all different facets," says the director.

It can be splendid, terrible, and depending on the action or the effect it undergoes, it shows us a different face.

»Magnificent surf sequences give the impression of taking place on the board to challenge the ocean.

Technical prowess and emotion

“For the rendering of water, I needed to go through a research stage where I tried to establish a principle governing the action and the form that will result from it,” explains the filmmaker. The result is dazzling, as it testifies to the mastery of Masaaki Yuasa in what is considered one of the most difficult areas in animation cinema.

The film does not rely on its technical prowess alone, it plunges into the psychology of characters tossed about by events.

“Romance and surfing are intrinsically connected, there is respect for each other.

These two aspects are naturally present, inextricable in

Ride Your Wave

 ”, specifies the scenario writer.

While the audience is still wiping away their tears, Masaaki Yuasa is already out of the water for his next film,

Inu-oh

, which will explore the career of a Noh theater actor and will be presented in a few days at the Mostra. of Venice.

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  • Anime

  • Japan

  • Movie theater

  • Surf

  • Annecy festival