A Tree of Palme (Parumu no Ki) 2002 Over at Iridium Eye Reviews a little while back I was talking with Curtis about A Tree of Palme and he described it as an ‘avant-garde anime Pinocchio’ and I reckon that’s a spot-on description of the film, so I’d like to borrow it! (You can checkContinue reading "A Tree of Palme (Parumu no Ki)"
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