This looks beautiful. So wonderful. In this day and age of CGI it’s wonderful to see someone taking the time and effort to make a charming and lovely (and heartbreaking) live action puppet movie.

In 1985 my family took me to England for the first time. I was barely 13, and not above bringing my cabbage patch doll Daniella Bridget along for the trip. However, being 13 and never being abroad before the jet lag just about killed me and I left Daniella behind at the very first hotel we stayed in. My parents had a full two weeks of driving round the country and visiting cousins and relatives they’d not seen in decades since moving to Canada so there was no way we could stop and turn around and get her. But we would be staying at that hotel again on the last night before our flight home, so a quick tearful phone call later and the hotel manager assured me that she would be safe and taken care of for the next two weeks. When we returned and I got Daniella back (after a horrible interlude when the man at the desk first told me he didn’t have her, and then quizzed me about what she looked like because I might be trying to steal her which made me cry a little bit) I had her back. And she had a new hat, a new vest, and a lot of buttons and badges on. I wonder what adventures she had during those two weeks when I was dragged around the British country side and made to look at castles and sheep. (Which I would totally love to do now, but as a 13 year old, not so much.)