Paris Match’s very reliable Yannick Vély is reporting Hayao Miyazaki’s “How Do You Live” as a no-go for Cannes.
Studio Ghibli would rather have Miyazaki's latest film screen to the Japanese public before the rest of the world, just as they have done with almost every other film of his.
“How Do You Live” will be released on July 14th in Japan. It is highly likely that Miyazaki’s latest opus will have its non-Japanese premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2013 Miyazaki said he was retiring and that his last film would be the bittersweet WWII drama “The Wind Rises.” That retirement was clearly short-lived.
We had reported last October that the film was nearing its completion and a 2023 release date was being eyed. Miyazaki is adapting a novel that has long influenced him — he’s cited it as his favorite childhood read.
Where many animators might simplify the visual elements of their hand-drawn animated movies, Miyazaki has always adhered to a painstakingly difficult process. That’s why he’s been working at a pace of animating about one minute of “How Do You Live?” per month since 2017.
The legendary Japanese filmmaker of such classics as “Spirited Away,” “Princess Mononoke,”and “My Neighbor Totoro” has always been suspicious of computers and personally draws his own frames by hand, which number in the thousands per film. As a result, Miyazaki’s films have always been richly conceived, with beautiful lavish colors and a masterful sense of detail rarely seen in western animation.
Side note — Other titles Vély says are not going to Cannes: Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Limonov”, Christopher Nolan “Oppenheimer,” Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon”, Terrence Malick’s “The Way of the Wind” and Marco Bellocchio’s “La Conversione”.