All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Original title

リリイ・シュシュのすべて

Directed by

Shunji Iwai

Genre

drama film, experimental film, coming-of-age film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 26m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 299 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of 14-year-old Japanese students in Ashikaga navigate their troubled lives. Their shared devotion to a mysterious pop singer shapes their emotional world.

melancholicdreamlikeunsettlingcerebralbleakellipticalrestlessvisually lush

What happens

All About Lily Chou-Chou (Japanese: リリイ・シュシュのすべて, Hepburn: Rirī Shushu no Subete) is a 2001 Japanese experimental psychological drama film, written, directed, and edited by Shunji Iwai. The narrative follows several 14-year-old Japanese students living in Ashikaga, Tochigi, examining how enigmatic solo musician Lily Chou-Chou influences their lives. The film is noted for an unconventional visual style which includes many jump cuts and shots with disjunctive contents, as well as for an elliptical narrative. These features, which have led the film to be described as restless or "explosive", are viewed by critics as efforts to artistically evoke the emotional lives of disaffected Japanese youth. Critics mostly expressed positive views on All About Lily Chou-Chou. While some found the story's ambiguity frustrating, the film's lyricism, visuals, and soundtrack drew praise. The film has gained a cult following both domestically and internationally in the years after its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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