Bewitched by this eerie tearjerker: Song of the Sea is a beautiful, moving tale
Song of the Sea
Verdict: Beautiful, moving Irish legend
The Irish Song Of The Sea is gorgeous: a wild western sea and a lonely lighthouse, a strange, half-human selkie child with the mournful eyes of a seal. Tomm Moore’s animation makes Disney look tawdry and obvious.
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Irish animation Song of the Sea is a beautiful, moving Irish legend, says Libby Purves
Ben is the son of a lighthouse keeper, his mother — a seal-woman — sang the old songs before disappearing into the sea at the birth of his mute sister Saoirse, pictured.
The children are drawn into the world of the ‘Other People’: fairies who need their help. Some are sinister, some comic.
Ben, a child of grief, defies the owl-witch Macha who says life is too sad to endure. She sends Saoirse into a coma to ‘save her’.
Ben must bring her back to life, so she can save both the fairy world and the human family.
It’s a lovely, serious, beautifully drawn tale. When at last the selkie-child finds her voice, the eerie beautiful air actually made me cry.
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