A charming, dialogue-free look at childhood this Japanese miniature, co-directed by Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi, may take it's time but there are few films that take us into the mind of a young child quite as beautifully as this one does. If not very much happens, and if what does happen seems a bit on the fanciful side, it matters not a jot for this is a film that will take you back to a time in your lives that for many is only a distant memory; this is the dreamworld of the childhood of our imaginations. Simplicity itself and really something of a small gem.

Luckily there are some people who appeal to film and sensitivity to narrate their movies. Like Kohei Igarashi and Damien Manivel, who return us to the pleasure of observing, understanding and explaining, without words, the sensations that cold provokes in our bodies or the idea of miss daddy so much.