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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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