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All About Lily Chou-Chou (Riri Shushu no subete) (2001)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 3

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88

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Average Rating: 4.1/5
User Ratings: 7,725

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Wildly popular filmmaker Shunji Iwai breaks a three-year hiatus following his less than successful April Story with this elliptical drama about teenaged alienation, violence, and celebrity. The film centers on Yuichi Hasumi (Hayato Ichihara), an eighth grader who lives in a sleepy town in rural Japan with his mother, her boyfriend, and the boyfriend's son. At school he is beaten up and harassed by his former friend Hoshino. In order to scrape up the cash to meet Hoshino's daily extortion demand,

Feb 15, 2005

Cowboy Pictures

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All Critics (45) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (12) | DVD (7)

For all of its insights into the dream world of teen life, and its electronic expression through cyber culture, the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time.

March 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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This movie is maddening. It conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought.

November 29, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Once you get into its rhythm ... the movie becomes a heady experience.

November 15, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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A hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture.

September 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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Bravura, ambitious and profoundly disturbing. It is also a daunting, demanding experience, one whose complex structure makes it a challenge to track despite literate subtitles.

August 16, 2002 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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If your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely can't miss it.

July 25, 2002 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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The gutsy film didn't help itself by making it so difficult to follow the story and by being so morose.

January 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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One thing is for sure: This movie does not tell you a whole lot about Lily Chou-Chou.

November 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

I'm not sure All About Lily Chou-Chou made sense in my head, but it made sense in my heart.

October 25, 2002 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Confusion is one of my least favourite emotions, especially when I have to put up with 146 minutes of it.

October 8, 2002 Comment

A difficult, absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear.

September 27, 2002 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian
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Audience Reviews for All About Lily Chou-Chou (Riri Shushu no subete)

First off, All About Lily Chou-Chou looks beautiful. It's switching from digital to 35mm is brilliant, the direction, cinematography and editing is great, as is the non-linear narrative. The music is also suitably haunting, an important thing to get right considering the subject matter - I still can't get that 'I see

April 23, 2012
SirPant

Super Reviewer

If watching other people's home movies, and chatlogs, about new age mumbo jumbo appeals to you, knock yourself out--but I was too bored to give this movie the kind of attention it demanded to follow its disjointed out-of-order scenes. 146 minutes was way too much for me on this one.

December 14, 2010
itsjustme2004

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