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Big Fish & Begonia
Directed by
Liang Xuan
,
Zhang Chun
PG-13
2016
1h 41m
Romance
,
Animation
,
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7.0
94%
71%
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A 16-year-old girl travels to the human world in the form of a dolphin and forms a connection with a human boy.
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Cast of Big Fish & Begonia
Ji Guanlin
Chun (voice)
Pan Shulan
Old Chun (voice)
Su Shangqing
Qiu (voice)
Timmy Xu
Kun (voice)
King Shih-Chieh
Ling Po (voice)
Jiu'er
Kun's Sister (voice)
Xang Yuanyuan
Feng (voice)
Xue Lifang
Chun's Father (Shu, voice)
Ajie
Zi Chisong (voice)
Yang Ting
鼠婆子
Liang Xuan
Director / Writer / Producer
Zhang Chun
Director / Producer
Wang Changtian
Producer
Big Fish & Begonia Ratings & Reviews
Every Movie Has a Lesson
Don Shanahan
The slightly ambiguous mythology is perplexing to follow and thick in allegory to a degree for sure. Yet, it's immensely reachable with its ethereal parallels to human virtues.
Fresh Fiction
Preston Barta
Big Fish & Begonia may not be the big catch it could have been, but there's a dreamlike quality to the film that's commendable.
Movie Chambers
Paul Chambers
"Big Fish & Begonia" is a marvelous piece of animation. Each scene is like a painting come to life. The story will touch your heart and no doubt the characters will delightfully make their temporary home there as well.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
Spinning their own variations on ancient Chinese myths, these directors make a poetic plea to protect actual species-while delighting audiences with transcendent make-believe.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A creative Chinese animated film that marvels at mysterious connections.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
Big Fish & Begonia is, at times, an achingly beautiful work of animation.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Chun's life is literally spent on other people, but the beauty her actions create for the film and inspire from its characters is often powerful enough to make sense of a story that never bothers to make sense of itself.
Film Threat
Brian Thompson
Big Fish & Begonia brilliantly utilizes its elaborate medium to craft a story with no shortage of spiritual and emotional resonance.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Its blend of 2D and CG animation uses a radiant palette, and its story moves between the spirit and animals worlds with an undercurrent of yearning and waves of pure delight.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... casually and consistently charming in ways that transcend generation gaps and cultural boundaries.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
From a visual standpoint, Big Fish & Begonia is never less than breathtaking.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
The picture is also further evidence that no matter how beautifully rendered it is or how complex the emotional context, and Big Fish & Begonia is both beautiful and complex, any shot of a sea creature leaping over a human will invoke Free Willy.
TheWrap
Robert Abele
Chinese animation makes a confident play for art and relevance with this swell of myth, nature, adolescent turbulence and fantasy intrigue that impresses more often than it organically dazzles, and yet succeeds mostly because of its beating heart.
The Film Stage
Jared Mobarak
Rather than be about finding eternal life like many tales of its kind are, Big Fish & Begonia is about giving it.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It marks a major step forward for Chinese feature animation, as well as the culmination of a journey that took the filmmakers more than a dozen years to complete.
Pajiba
Kristy Puchko
Big Fish and Begonia offers audiences a richly realized world with a fascinating tale, and a blushing romance. It's absolutely lovely, tip to tail.
New York Times
Teo Bugbee
Never short on visual or emotional wonder, "Big Fish & Begonia" contemplates mortality with the imagination of an old soul who has been given new eyes.
Village Voice
Simon Abrams
Busy but uninspired...
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
A sweet and lyrical fantasy film filled with inviting visuals and inventive characters that might, if nothing else, make you look at dolphins in an entirely different way.
Slant Magazine
Oleg Ivanov
In the sly exchanges between the teenage protagonists and their elders, the film reflects a nation's shifting tides.
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