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{{Short description|1987 Swedish film by Vladimir Grammatikov}}
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{{Infobox film
| name            = Mio in the Land of Faraway
| image           = Mio min mio se dvd.jpg
| caption         = Swedish DVD cover<br />featuring 1987 promotional artwork.
| director        = [[Vladimir Grammatikov]]
| producer        = Ingemar Ejve
| writer          = William Aldridge
| based_on    = {{based on|''[[Mio, My Son]]''|[[Astrid Lindgren]]}}
| starring        = [[Christopher Lee]]<br />[[Christian Bale]]<br /> [[Nick Pickard|Nicholas Pickard]]<br />[[Timothy Bottoms]]<br />[[Susannah York]]
| music           = [[Benny Andersson]]<br />[[Anders Eljas]]
| cinematography  = Aleksandr Antipenko<br /> Kjell Vassdal
| editing         = Darek Hodor
| studio = [[Nordisk Tonefilm]] International<br />[[Gorky Film Studio]]
| distributor     = [[Sandrew Metronome]]
| released        = {{Film date|1987|07| |[[Moscow International Film Festival|MIFF]]|1987|08|18|[[Norwegian International Film Festival|NIFF]]|1987|10|16|Sweden|df=y}}
| runtime         = 99 minutes
| country         = Sweden<br />Soviet Union<br />Norway
| language        = English
| budget          = [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 55,000,000 <small>(est.)</small>
| gross           = '''Sweden:''' SEK 17,799,205
}}
'''''Mio in the Land of Faraway''''' ({{langx|sv|'''Mio min Mio'''}}; {{langx|ru|Мио, мой Мио|Mio, moy Mio}}) is a 1987 [[fantasy film]] directed by [[Vladimir Grammatikov]], and starring [[Christopher Lee]], [[Christian Bale]], [[Nick Pickard|Nicholas Pickard]], [[Timothy Bottoms]] and [[Susannah York]]. Based on the 1954 novel ''[[Mio, My Son]]'' by [[Astrid Lindgren]], it tells the story of a boy from [[Stockholm]] who travels to an otherworldly fantasy realm and frees the land from an evil knight's oppression.
''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' was co-produced by companies from [[Sweden]], [[Norway]] and the [[Soviet Union]] with a budget of about fifty million [[Swedish krona|Swedish kronor]], making it the most expensive film adaptation of an Astrid Lindgren book during her lifetime.<ref name="pippipals14" /> It featured an international cast consisting largely of [[United Kingdom|British]], [[Russia]]n and [[Scandinavia]]n actors, while its filming locations included Stockholm, [[Moscow]], [[Crimea]], and [[Scotland]]. The film was shot in [[English language|English]] and subsequently dubbed in Swedish and Russian. Its special effects were created by [[Derek Meddings]]. The film's theme song, "[[Mio My Mio (song)|Mio My Mio]]", was composed by two former [[ABBA]] members, [[Benny Andersson]] and [[Björn Ulvaeus]], and performed by the Swedish band [[Gemini (Swedish band)|Gemini]].
Released in 1987, the film saw [[Nick Pickard|Nicholas Pickard]]'s debut as an actor and marked [[Christian Bale]]'s first appearance in a [[feature film]]. It won the Cinekid Film Award in [[Amsterdam]], while its theme song became a top three hit in Sweden. However, Swedish reviewers received the film unfavorably, criticizing it as a poor adaptation of Lindgren's novel.
==Plot==
The film opens in modern Stockholm. Orphaned by his mother's death and father's disappearance, Bosse ([[Nick Pickard|Nicholas Pickard]]) suffers neglect by his guardians Aunt Edna<ref name="edla">Aunt Edna is named "Edla" in the Swedish film credits.</ref> ([[Gunilla Nyroos]]) and Uncle Sixten, as well as abuse from bullies. His best friend is Benke ([[Christian Bale]]), whose father Bosse envies. Running away one night to seek his own father, Bosse meets the kindly shopkeeper Mrs Lundin ([[Linn Stokke]]), who gives him an apple and asks him to mail a postcard. The postcard is addressed to the Land of Faraway, informing its King of Bosse's impending journey there. After Bosse mails the postcard, his apple turns golden. Dropping the transfigured apple in shock, Bosse stumbles upon a [[genie]] (Geoffrey Staines) trapped in a bottle and frees it.
It turns out that this spirit has travelled from the Land of Faraway to seek Bosse, and that the golden apple is Bosse's identifying sign. With the boy clinging to his beard, the genie transports Bosse to the Land of Faraway and sets him down on Green Meadow Island. There, Bosse discovers that his real name is Mio, and that his father is the King ([[Timothy Bottoms]]). Treated with love and generosity, Mio leads an idyllic life on Green Meadow Island. He receives the horse Miramis as a gift from his father and makes friends with the local children. The latter include the farm boy Jiri, the shepherd boy Nonno, and the royal gardener's son Jum-Jum, who turns out to be Benke's [[Look-alike|double]]. Together, Mio and Jum-Jum learn to play [[pan flute]] music from Nonno.
However, not all is well. From a whispering well, Mio learns that an iron-clawed knight from the Land Outside, Kato ([[Christopher Lee]]), has been kidnapping children and making them his servants by ripping out their hearts and replacing them with stone. Those who refuse to serve him are transformed into birds and condemned to circle his castle in flight. Even his name induces terror when spoken.
With Jum-Jum and Miramis, Mio leaves Green Meadow Island and journeys to the Forest of Mysteries, where he tears his cape on the briars. The Weaver Woman ([[Susannah York]]) receives the boys at her house, mending Mio's torn cape and sewing a new lining into it. Hearing the Bird of Grief<ref>Mio and the Weaver Woman refer to the bird as such. The film's theme song refers to it as the "Bird of Sorrow".</ref> lament for Kato's victims, and told that the Weaver Woman's daughter Millimani is among them, Mio gradually learns of his long-prophesied destiny to confront Kato in the Land Outside.
Journeying to the Land Outside, Mio and Jum-Jum meet Eno (Igor Yasulovich), a hungry old man living in a cave, and offer him food. In gratitude, Eno tells them to seek a weapon against Kato from the Forger of Swords, who has been imprisoned and enslaved by Kato in the Blackest Mountain beyond the Dead Forest. Meanwhile, Kato's servants capture Miramis. The boys are forced to continue their journey on foot, pursued by Kato's servants through the Dead Forest and the Blackest Mountain. Separated in the mountain's tunnels, the boys find each other by playing their pan-flutes. They finally reach the Forger of Swords ([[Sverre Anker Ousdal]]), who tells the boys about Kato's stone heart and provides Mio a sword capable of penetrating it.
Mio and Jum-Jum journey to Kato's castle, where they are captured and imprisoned. Kato throws Mio's sword into the lake outside the castle. However, Mio discovers that his newly lined cape turns him invisible when worn inside-out, and reclaims his sword with the help of Kato's birds. Armed and invisible, he escapes and makes his way to Kato's chamber, eluding the castle guards. Taking off his cloak, Mio challenges Kato to combat and eventually slays him. Turning into rock, the dead knight crumbles into pieces. Mio picks up Kato's stone heart and holds it outside a window, where it transforms into a bird and flies away.
Kato's birds turn back into children, Jum-Jum and Miramis are freed, and Kato's castle collapses into ruin. The Dead Forest begins to revive. Returning to Green Meadow Island, the children rejoin their families, and Mio rejoins his father.
==Cast==
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor !! Role
|-valign="top"
|[[Nick Pickard|Nicholas Pickard]] <br />(Swedish voice: Pontus Lantz) <br />(Russian voice: Slava Galiulin)
|Mio / Bosse
|-valign="top"
|[[Christian Bale]] <br />(Swedish voice: Max Winerdahl) <br />(Russian voice: Kesha Ivanov)
|Jum-Jum / Benke
|-valign="top"
|[[Christopher Lee]] <br />(Swedish voice: Tor Isedal) <br />(Russian voice: Sergey Malishevsky)
|Kato
|-valign="top"
|[[Timothy Bottoms]] <br />(Swedish voice: Tomas Bolme) <br />(Russian voice: Timofei Spivak)
|The King
|-valign="top"
|[[Susannah York]] <br />(Swedish voice: Helena Brodin) <br />(Russian voice: Larissa Danilina)
|The Weaver Woman
|-valign="top"
|[[Sverre Anker Ousdal]] <br />(Swedish voice: John Harryson) <br />(Russian voice: Vladimir Antonik)
|Forger of Swords
|-valign="top"
|[[Igor Yasulovich]] <br />(Swedish voice: Per Sjöstrand)
|Eno / Carpetbeater
|-valign="top"
|[[Linn Stokke]] <br />(Swedish voice: Lena Endre) <br />(Russian voice: Marina Levtova)
|Mrs. Lundin
|-valign="top"
|[[Stig Engström (actor)|Stig Engström]] <br />(Swedish voice: Ulf Håkan Jansson) <br />(Russian voice: Vladislav Kovalkov)
|Benke's Father
|-valign="top"
|Geoffrey Staines <br />(Swedish voice: Hans Strååt) <br />(Russian voice: Andrey Tarasov)
|The Spirit
|-
|[[Gunilla Nyroos]] <br />(Russian voice: Nelli Vitepash)
|Aunt Edna<ref name="edla" />
|-
|Lyobov Germanova
|Jum-Jum's Mother
|-
|Andrei Petrov <br />(Swedish voice: Christoffer Levah)
|Jiri
|-
|Andrei Sergeyev <br />(Swedish voice: Johan Randqvist)
|Nonno
|-
|Anna Foght
|Millimani
|}
==Major themes==
As a [[fantasy]] work, ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' features a number of tropes associated with the genre. These include the hero's travel to a fantasy realm through a magical portal, his discovery of his [[true name]], and his battle against a Dark Lord figure. In addition, the film's early scenes take the form of an [[urban fantasy]] concerned with a young boy's wishful desires and perceptions.<ref name="encyclopedia" />
==Production==
[[Image:GamlaStan from Katarinahissen Stockholm Swe.jpg|right|thumb|[[Stockholm]]]] [[Image:Eilean Donan Castle2.jpg|right|thumb|[[Eilean Donan Castle]]]]
Various companies from [[Sweden]], [[Norway]] and the [[Soviet Union]] were involved in making ''Mio in the Land of Faraway''. It was co-produced by Nordisk Tonefilm International AB and [[Gorky Film Studio]] with assistance from the [[Swedish Film Institute]], Norway Film Development, and Sovinfilm.<ref name="credits">Film credits.</ref> Its budget was about fifty million [[Swedish krona|Swedish kronor]],<ref name="budget">''Cinema Journal'' reports a budget of fifty million Swedish kronor. [{{cite journal | last = Holmlund | first = Christine | title = Pippi and Her Pals | journal = Cinema Journal | volume = 42.2 | issue = Winter 2003 | pages = 14 | year = 2003}}]</ref> making it the most expensive film adaptation of an Astrid Lindgren book during her lifetime.<ref name="pippipals14">{{cite journal | last = Holmlund | first = Christine | title = Pippi and Her Pals | journal = Cinema Journal | volume = 42.2 | issue = Winter 2003 | pages = 14 | year = 2003}}</ref>
Filming took place between March and July 1986.<ref name="inbase-add">{{cite web | title = InBaseline: ''Mio min Mio'' (1987) - Additional Detail - Additional Notes | url = http://www.inbaseline.com/project.aspx?project_id=109342 | access-date = 2008-07-06}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Helmed by [[Russia]]n director Vladimir Grammatikov, the project featured an international cast consisting largely of [[United Kingdom|British]], [[Scandinavia]]n and Russian actors.<ref name="pippipals12" /> Filming locations included [[Stockholm]], [[Moscow]],<ref name="variety1987" /><ref>{{cite book | last = Lee | first = Christopher | title = Christopher Lee: Tall, Dark and Gruesome | publisher = Midnight Marquee (1999 US reprint) | orig-year = 1977 | year = 1997 | location = US | pages = 275–277, 278}}</ref> the [[Crimea]], and [[Eilean Donan Castle]] in [[Scotland]]. The film was shot in [[English language|English]],<ref name="pippipals12">{{cite journal | last = Holmlund | first = Christine | title = Pippi and Her Pals | journal = Cinema Journal | volume = 42.2 | issue = Winter 2003 | pages = 12 | year = 2003}}</ref> and subsequently dubbed in [[Swedish language|Swedish]]<ref name="pippipals12" /> and [[Russian language|Russian]].<ref name="inbase-add" /><ref name="variety1987" />
For his role as Kato, [[Christopher Lee]] had to wear a steel hand during filming sessions.<ref>{{cite book | last = Lee | first = Christopher | title = Christopher Lee: Tall, Dark and Gruesome | publisher = Midnight Marquee (1999 US reprint) | orig-year = 1977 | year = 1997 | location = US | pages = 276}}</ref> In 1997, he recalled various difficulties while shooting the film in Moscow during 1986:
{{cquote|As a work environment it was a horror story. [...] For us the faraway land was the Soviet Union, where the food was uneatable, the sanitation unspeakable, the political people ubiquitous. [...] It was irritating work: Nothing ever happened before lunch, and since it took forever to light a scene, not much after it. These were the standard frustrations of Russian filmmaking at that time.<ref>{{cite book | last = Lee | first = Christopher | title = Christopher Lee: Tall, Dark and Gruesome | publisher = Midnight Marquee (1999 US reprint) | orig-year = 1977 | year = 1997 | location = US | pages = 275–277}}</ref>}}
The [[Chernobyl disaster]] occurred at the same time that the cast and crew were filming scenes in Ukraine, forcing them to evacuate the area and postpone shooting for a month.<ref name="details2008" /> In a 2008 ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'' interview, [[Christian Bale]] briefly recalled their evacuation and subsequent return: "We knew something had occurred, because production came to us and they said, 'We're done. We have to leave.' A month later we were back. We would have somebody with a [[Geiger counter]] at every dinner, scanning each plate".<ref name="details2008">{{cite web|last=Higginbotham |first=Adam |title=Christian Bale |work=Details |date=27 May 2008 |url=http://men.style.com/details/blogs/thegadabout/2008/05/christian-bale.html |access-date=2008-07-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701083128/http://men.style.com/details/blogs/thegadabout/2008/05/christian-bale.html |archive-date=July 1, 2008}}</ref>
The film's special effects were created by [[Derek Meddings]]. The film's theme song, "[[Mio My Mio (song)|Mio My Mio]]", was composed by two former [[ABBA]] members, [[Benny Andersson]] and [[Björn Ulvaeus]], and performed by the Swedish band [[Gemini (Swedish band)|Gemini]]. The film's background music was composed by Anders Eljas with assistance from Benny Andersson,<ref name="credits" /> and performed by the Soviet Film Symphony Orchestra with [[Sergei Skripka]] as the conductor.<ref name="credits" />
This film was [[Nicholas Pickard]]'s debut as an actor. It was also the [[feature film|feature-film]] debut of Christian Bale, who reappeared in December that year as the [[National Board of Review of Motion Pictures|NBR]]-acclaimed lead of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' (1987).
==Release==
The film appeared at the [[Moscow International Film Festival]] in July 1987,<ref name="variety" /> with its Russian dub competing in the Children's Films category.<ref name="variety1987" /> The film also appeared at the [[Norwegian International Film Festival]] the following month on 18 August.<ref name="variety1987" /><ref name="variety">{{cite news | title = Variety: ''Mio min Mio'' (1988) | url = https://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/109342/Mio%20min%20Mio.html?dataSet=1 | access-date = 2008-07-06}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref> It premiered in Sweden on 16 October of the same year.
The film is distributed in Sweden by [[Sandrew Metronome]],<ref name="variety1987" /><ref>{{cite web | title = InBaseline: ''Mio min Mio'' (1987) - Credits | url = http://www.inbaseline.com/project.aspx?project_id=109342 | access-date = 2008-07-06}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> and in the [[United States]] by [[Miramax|Miramax Films]] as ''The Land of Faraway''. It was released on VHS by Prism Entertainment in 1988 and by Starmaker Entertainment in 1992. It was released on [[DVD]] by [[Anchor Bay Entertainment]] in the US during 2001, and by Eureka Entertainment in Britain during 2007.<ref>{{cite web | title = Eureka Entertainment: Eureka! Classics - ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' | url = http://eurekavideo.co.uk/classics/mio-in-the-land-of-faraway/ | access-date = 2008-07-06}}</ref>
==Reception==
===Box office===
In Sweden, the film grossed about 17,800,000 Swedish kronor at the box office.
===Critical response===
In Sweden, the film received poor reviews upon its release.<ref name="pippipals14" /> According to an article published by film scholar Christine Holmlund in ''[[Cinema Journal]]'', Swedish reviewers criticized it for being "canned Astrid Lindgren" and "an incoherent jumble of landscapes and cast members, badly dubbed to boot".<ref name="pippipals14" /> Holmlund also attributed the film's negative reception to its omission of the original work's psychological nuances.<ref name="pippipals14" /> Another factor was the film's international eclecticism in its cast and settings,<ref name="pippipals12" /> which Holmlund characterized as "[[Anglicisation|Anglicizing]]"<ref name="pippipals14" /> and contrasted to the Swedish [[medievalism]] of the better-received Lindgren adaptations ''[[The Brothers Lionheart (film)|The Brothers Lionheart]]'' (1977) and ''[[Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (film)|Ronia the Robber's Daughter]]'' (1984).<ref>{{cite journal | last = Holmlund | first = Christine | title = Pippi and Her Pals | journal = Cinema Journal | volume = 42.2 | issue = Winter 2003 | pages = 12–15 | year = 2003}}</ref>
Critical response elsewhere has ranged from mixed to negative. Following the 1987 festival screening in Norway, the film-industry magazine ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' criticized ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' for its unsubtle handling of Lindgren's text and the actors,<ref name="variety1987" /> although it praised the film's appealing appearance and high production values as well as Christopher Lee's performance.<ref name="variety1987">{{cite journal | title = Film Reviews: ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' | journal = Variety | issue = 26 August 1987 | year = 1987}}</ref> Following the 2007 DVD release in Britain, the genre magazine ''[[Dreamwatch]]'' characterized ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' as a "strange, otherworldly film" and an "intriguing curio" from the [[1980s in film|1980s]],<ref name="skipp" /> but criticized its sentimentality and its "sugary tone and sub-[[Tolkien]] dialogue".<ref name="skipp">{{cite journal | last = Skipp | first = James | title = ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'': DVD review | journal = Dreamwatch | issue = 12 March 2007 | year = 2007 | url = http://dwscifi.com/reviews/291-mio-in-the-land-of-faraway | access-date = 2008-07-02 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130122101416/http://dwscifi.com/reviews/291-mio-in-the-land-of-faraway | archive-date = 2013-01-22 | url-status = dead}}</ref> Following a memorial screening in 2004, the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' characterized the film as "unimaginative" and its acting as "wooden", again citing Lee as an exception.<ref name="shen">{{cite journal | last = Shen | first = Ten | title = ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' | journal = Chicago Reader | issue = 10 January 2004 | year = 2004 | url = http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/23184_MIO_IN_THE_LAND_OF_FARAWAY | access-date = 2008-07-11}}</ref>
One decade after the film's initial release, ''[[The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]]'' praised the film's early scenes as a "beautifully effective" urban fantasy, but criticized the later scenes as "cliché-ridden and turgid". Seeing the film as an attempt to emulate ''[[The NeverEnding Story (film)|The NeverEnding Story]]'' (1984), it summed up ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' as a "tired, imitative and cynical" adaptation of Lindgren's novel.<ref name="encyclopedia">{{Cite book | last = Grant | first = John | contribution = Land of Faraway, The | year = 1997 | title = The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | url = https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffa00clutrich | url-access = limited | editor-last1 = Clute | editor-first1 = John | editor-first2=John | editor-last2=Grant | pages = [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffa00clutrich/page/558 558] | place = New York | publisher = St. Martin's Griffin}}</ref>
===Awards===
In [[Amsterdam]], the film won the Cinekid Film Award in 1988.
==Soundtrack==
In 1987, [[Gemini (Swedish band)|Gemini]] released the film's theme song "[[Mio My Mio (song)|Mio My Mio]]" as a single<ref name="swedishsingle">{{cite web | title = Swedishcharts.com: Gemini - Mio min Mio (Song) | url = http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?key=265531&cat=s | access-date = 2008-07-10}}</ref> and as part of their album ''[[Geminism]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title = Swedishcharts.com: Gemini - Geminism (Album) | url = http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?key=45636&cat=a | access-date = 2008-07-10}}</ref> It became a hit in Sweden, with the single maintaining top ten position for 5 weeks.<ref name="swedishsingle" />
In 1987 and 1988, [[Columbia Records|CBS Records]] <!-- The company with the Walking Eye logo, not the company founded in 2006 --> released the film's soundtrack on [[LP album|LP]] and [[Compact disc|CD]].<ref name="collector">{{cite web | title = Soundtrack Collector: ''Mio Min Mio'' | url = http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=63411 | access-date = 2008-07-02}}</ref> These releases included both "Mio My Mio" as well as the score. The LP album (CBS 460594-8) contains the following tracks:<ref>{{cite web | title = 1987: Mio Min Mio (digital scan of track list) | url = http://www.raffem.com/BjornOBenny.htm#1987 | access-date = 2008-07-02}}</ref>
# "Mio Overture" (Anders Eljas) – 3:16
# "Kite-Flying" (Anders Eljas) – 1:26
# "Aunt Edna's Waiting At Home" (Anders Eljas) – 0:44
# "Bosse Runs Away" (Anders Eljas) – 4:36
# "The Journey To The Land Of Faraway" (Anders Eljas, [[Benny Andersson]]) — 6:01
# "The Shepherd's Flute #1" (Benny Andersson) — 0:27
# "Kato's Icy Wind" (Anders Eljas) — 2:09
# "The Bridge Of The Morning Light" (Anders Eljas) — 1:46
# "The Land Outside" (Anders Eljas) — 1:51
# "Miramis Is Captured" (Anders Eljas) — 1:58
# "The Hunt For Mio And Jum-Jum" (Anders Eljas) — 1:40
# "The Shepherd's Flute #2" (Benny Andersson) — 0:43
# "The Sword" (Anders Eljas) — 1:00
# "Inside Kato's Castle" (Anders Eljas) — 5:04
# "Prisoners Of Kato" (Anders Eljas) — 0:40
# "To The Dungeon" (Anders Eljas) — 1:32
# "Return Of The Sword" (Anders Eljas) — 0:37
# "The Final Battle" (Anders Eljas) — 5:36
# "The Reunion" (Anders Eljas, Benny Andersson) — 1:44
# "Mio My Mio" (Benny Andersson, [[Björn Ulvaeus]]; performed by Gemini) — 3:55
==References==
=== Citations ===
{{reflist}}
=== General and cited references ===
* {{cite journal | title = Film Reviews: ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' | journal = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | issue = 26 August 1987 | year = 1987}}
* {{Cite book | last = Grant | first = John | author-link = John Grant (author) | contribution = Land of Faraway, The | year = 1997 | title = [[The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]] | editor-last1 = Clute | editor-first1 = John | editor-first2=John | editor-last2=Grant | pages = 558 | place = New York | publisher = St. Martin's Griffin}}
* {{cite journal | last = Holmlund | first = Christine | title = Pippi and Her Pals | journal = [[Cinema Journal]] | volume = 42.2 | issue = Winter 2003 | pages = 3–24 | year = 2003 | doi = 10.1353/cj.2003.0005}}
* {{cite journal | last = Shen | first = Ten | title = ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'' | journal = [[Chicago Reader]] | issue = 10 January 2004 | year = 2004 | url = http://onfilm.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/23184_MIO_IN_THE_LAND_OF_FARAWAY | access-date = 2008-07-11}}
* {{cite journal | last = Skipp | first = James | title = ''Mio in the Land of Faraway'': DVD review | journal = [[Dreamwatch]] | issue = 12 March 2007 | year = 2007 | url = http://dwscifi.com/reviews/291-mio-in-the-land-of-faraway | access-date = 2008-07-02 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130122101416/http://dwscifi.com/reviews/291-mio-in-the-land-of-faraway | archive-date = 2013-01-22 | url-status = dead}}
==External links==
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