The Island of Memories: a survivable odyssey on friendship (review)

The authors of Puss in Boots 2 take us to the Philippines for a stunning visual festival, full of emotion, but which would have benefited from breathing a little.

There is, at the heart of this animated blockbuster, a beautiful and quite heartbreaking idea: what if growing up meant accepting to forget? Jo and Raissa have been inseparable since primary school. But after the baccalaureate, one goes to study in the United States, the other stays. And life is already starting to push them apart. A magical portal then projects them onto Nakali, a fantastic island taken from Philippine mythology, from which they only leave at a dizzying price: sacrificing all their memories (including those of their friendship). It is the metaphor, clear and cruel, of two teenagers ordered to renounce what shaped them…