All About Lily Chou-Chou (Riri Shushu no subete) (2001)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 12
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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 4
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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,
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Hayato Ichihara
Yuichi Hasumi -
Shűgo Oshinari
Shusuke Hoshino -
Ayumi Ito
Yoko Kuno -
Yű Aoi
Shiori Tsuda -
Takao Osawa
Tahito Takao
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All Critics (46) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (26) | 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.
Top CriticThis movie is maddening. It conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought.
Once you get into its rhythm ... the movie becomes a heady experience.
A hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture.
While the story's undeniably hard to follow, Iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce.
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.
It is remarkable not for its flamboyance but for its stark honesty, captivating visual flair, and a style of filmmaking that differs from anything on this side of the Pacific.
The gutsy film didn't help itself by making it so difficult to follow the story and by being so morose.
One thing is for sure: This movie does not tell you a whole lot about Lily Chou-Chou.
I'm not sure All About Lily Chou-Chou made sense in my head, but it made sense in my heart.
Confusion is one of my least favourite emotions, especially when I have to put up with 146 minutes of it.
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.
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Foreign Titles
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- All About Lily Chou-Chou (UK)
