This weekend, Liza, the Fox-Fairy won the Silver Méliès Award at the Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam. It was hardly the first award it won either: a few weeks earlier at Fantasporto, it won awards for Best Film and Best Special Effects. And that last award may give you an indication of just how polished and visually sumptuous Liza, the Fox-Fairy is. In his feature debut, Hungarian director Károly Ujj Mészáros tells the tale of Liza, a live-in nurse in 1960s Budapest who takes care of the wife of the Japanese ambassador. In her job, Liza has learned Japanese language and culture, and even has befriended the ghost of Tomy Tani, a famous Japanese singer. Tomy often comes to visit, and Liza thinks he is her...
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