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The Boy and the Heron

Opens on February 17

Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 124 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023 Language: Japanese with English subtitles

Presented in Association with the American Repertory Theater

Special Introduction by A.R.T. Staff.

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”

In celebration of the new production of The Odyssey which is soon to open at the Loeb Drama Center (Feb 9–Mar 16), we are excited to team up with our friends from the American Repertory Theater for film screenings that explore Homer’s epic (and epically influential) tale. Approaching the text from a contemporary point of view while still involving mythically inspired staging, the acclaimed writer and adaptor Kate Hamill (Sense & Sensibility) eschews some of the traditional heroics of Odysseus’s return asking if those changed by the ‘hero’s journey’ can ever really go back home. Learn more about the production at americanrepertorytheater.org.

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