Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Yû Aoi, Takao Osawa
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 c... read more 
DVD Release Date: February 15, 2005
Stats: 587 reviews
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 ... read more
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.
Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou is one of those films that stands out on its own.The story is quite unique and so is the writing, but this film is not for everybody. It shows how music can be a place for people to seek sanctuary from their everyday lives. The s
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all about teen angst and the need to make connections and sense of the world. good cinematography, strange narrative structure. it will frustrate alot of people but i liked it. debussy reinforced the impressionist tone. could've used some cutting tho
As pointless and missguided in it's social/media commentary as, say, Suicide Club. But at least not as stupid and irresponsable as the late. Still, quite lousy and not worth the time. I bet Reygadas stole some of the robots they used on this production for his magnus fats-opera "... read more
There are quite some different opinions about this movie, mine is that I liked it although it took me a while to get into it.
Young people are so relentless!!
I liked the dreamy scenes, and the music for the film was well chosen.
But the main character Yûichi was a bit 'flat',... read more
It's confusing and very slow, but accesses a very different part of the viewer's emotion. The movie is a tonally bizarre look at bullying and social ostracization; the ethereal atmosphere and lilting music work better than the subject matter would suggest. Amazing soundtrack, by ... read more
A beautiful film on more than one level about growing up, and friendships through school. The films chronological narrative is skewed so we begin somewhere in the middle. This allows us to evaluate the friendships with a select knowledge of the relationships between the character... read more
Rating these types of movies is so difficult, since it is quite obvious that movies like this are intentionally made to counter-act what we traditionally think of as good movies. Shunji Iwai wasn't thinking about critics when he made this film, so to criticize it would be somewha... read more
This movie is maddening. It conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought. Full Review
Once you get into its rhythm ... the movie becomes a heady experience. Full Review
A hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture. Full Review
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. Full Review
If your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely can't miss it. Full Review
Poignant Japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak. Full Review
A nearly 21/2 hours, the film is way too indulgent.
Much of All About Lily Chou-Chou is mesmerizing: some of its plaintiveness could make you weep. Full Review
Iwai creates Yuichi's world as much through disembodied moments of sight and sound as through action, building to a surprising stab of melancholy. Full Review
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