Cécile Corbel

Arrietty is about 14 years old. She's strong and adventurous girl with a taste for exploration and a desire for friendship. She's also 4 inches tall.


Studio Ghibli's latest adventure shrinks the viewer down to Arrietty's size so we can see the world from the perspective of her and her parents. They illustrate vibrant forests of grass and flowers and the dark hostile plains of a vacant kitchen floor at night. The attention to detail in this film is both intense and imaginative, animators draw water droplets the scale of Arriety's fist pouring out of teapots made for a dollhouse, and into cups filled by a single droplet. A bayleaf provides her mother with a year's worth of tea.


The film tells a beautiful story about a sick and lonely boy discovering Arrietty and her family, and follows the story as this dangerous and risky  situation slowly ends up helping both parties. 


Imagine the the tick tock of a fifty story high grandfather clock, or the drip drop of a leaky faucet into a giant pot of water. Those are the little touches that make this adventure so immersive.


As we jump across ivy leaves and run across window sills the enchanting sounds of Cecile Corbel's harp accompany us. Cecil can sing in over 7 different languages including; English, Italian, Breton, French, Irish, Turkish, and Japanese. Her music honors of the film and images perfectly. 


Cecile Corbel - Sho's Waltz ( for the film "The Secret World of Arrietty")