Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure (opens in new tab)

Christian theology becomes an unsettling and visually ravishing mystery in early film from the Ghost in the Shell directorThis 1985 anime is a true curio: a furtive, portentous odyssey into a hollowed-out landscape told largely in symbolist images. A million miles away from director Mamoru Oshii’s often-logorrheic films (such as his best-known work, from 1995), it still swills around plenty of philosophical concepts linked to his fascination with Christian theology. But like the egg being lug...