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All About Lily Chou-Chou

2001
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
2h 26m
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence. (imdb)
Directed by:
Shunji Iwai Shunji Iwai
Written by:
Shunji Iwai Shunji Iwai
Starring:
Hayato Ichihara Hayato Ichihara Shûgo Oshinari Shûgo Oshinari Yû Aoi Yû Aoi Ayumi Ito Ayumi Ito Takao Ohsawa Takao Ohsawa
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Genres:
Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Music
AKAs:
All About Lily Chou Chou, Riri Shushu no subete
Country:
Japan
Languages:
Japanese, Ryukyuan
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All About Lily Chou-Chou

2001
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
2h 26m
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eveeluneveelun
Rated 14 Aug 2007
80
78th
Brutal and at times hard to watch, yet also compelling and consistently interesting. The film incorporates gorgeous color sequences, depictions of online conversations that are actually moving rather than tedious, and an interesting narrative structure.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
qvtQVT
Rated 18 May 2009
15
23rd
It's a masterclass in color technique that owes nothing to the French. It's also a masterclass in how to bore the fuck out of me. Even though mad bitches got raped and shit, it was still filled with plot holes and the best thing about the movie was the grass. That's completely lame. Grass should not be top 5, unless this is Au Hazard Balthazar because it's okay for donkeys to think about grass a lot. Maybe black beauty too. Horses eat grass. 4
Rated 18 May 2009
octaveOctave
Rated 19 Aug 2009
90
97th
Makes your soul burn slow!
Rated 19 Aug 2009
eee_e
Rated 29 Sep 2008
95
97th
Who'd have thought that scenes depicting online chat would be so exhilarating! Worth seeing for the kickass soundtrack and innovative cinematography. But the almost too real depictions of the cruelties of adolescence are what bumps it into modern classic status, incredibly overlooked.
Rated 29 Sep 2008
darkcloudDarkCloud
Rated 29 Apr 2013
95
94th
This is cinema, my friend. This is cinema. This film epitomizes that movie as an art form can express poetry, can resonate with music, can stride hard as a prose. This film talks about ether while the fact is this film is truly ethereal. Like the sand particles collate to form a dune, like droplets of salt water make an ocean, this film is threaded between love and anger, passion and rage, sympathy and torture. It takes individual blank spaces and make a vacuum, so deep, that it astonishes.
Rated 29 Apr 2013
martintellerMartinTeller
Rated 19 Dec 2006
84
81st
A stunning, thoughtful exploration of the confusion and cruelty of budding adolescence. The soundtrack is superb, a mix of ethereal J-pop and languid Debussy pieces. And the cinematography is quite nice too, though the handheld section in the middle goes on a bit too long and threatens to unhinge the film. Slightly less compelling on the second viewing, though.
Rated 19 Dec 2006
whatisitiseewhatisitisee
Rated 17 Jan 2014
95
99th
Always fleeting into a graceful destruction
Rated 17 Jan 2014
cowmanCowman
Rated 02 Sep 2015
70
56th
A strange non-lineair plot, lots and lots of characters that seem to come out of nowhere and disappear or get killed randomly, unexplained character evolutions (class president-turned-bully, fucking weird), some inexplicable teenage prostitution and a rape scene, Japanese pop-music obsessions, some stuff about the 'Ether'...; god, what was happening?
Rated 02 Sep 2015
golightlyGolightly
Rated 09 Dec 2009
90
88th
Beautiful film. Salyu and Kobayashi really came through on the soundtrack end of things. The timeline is just a tad confusing on a first run through.
Rated 09 Dec 2009
hisblobhisblob
Rated 13 Jan 2013
100
98th
I can't really do justice to how good this is. Watch it, then watch it again.
Rated 13 Jan 2013
snallygastersnallygaster
Rated 09 Oct 2010
89
96th
Certainly not a perfect movie, and its flaws are more grating on repeat viewings: there are too many familiar high school drama tropes, an important plot point comes off as extremely unlikely, the protagonist's spinelessness strains our sympathies, the typed text sequences can be annoying. But although it can be disregarded as another manipulative high school melodrama, there's something weirdly mythic about the story and characters, particularly the antagonist's transformation.
Rated 09 Oct 2010
dorkovskyDorkovsky
Rated 16 Apr 2010
9
97th
Love the soundtrack, love the cinematography, love the originality and its ability to cross over many complex themes while still basically remaining a coming-of-age story. Still, I didn't love the movie as a whole because I found the characters to be somewhat unrelatable (but having been 14-15 in 2001 I was surprised at how universal the emotions are, since Eastern films usually have a much greater culture barrier.) and it did seem like it could have been trimmed down about 25 minutes.
Rated 16 Apr 2010
peyrinpeyrin
Rated 16 Mar 2020
85
90th
Even with several layers of obfuscation from the nonlinear plot and the internet personas, Iwai's elegant style shows the fragile beauty of youth and how tragically quickly it can be destroyed. One might even argue that it's in his more ambitious, meandering efforts where Iwai's mesmerizing style is most essential in filling in the holes of his scripts. The segment filmed in digital did age terribly tho.
Rated 16 Mar 2020
closedmouthclosedmouth
Rated 02 Oct 2010
100
98th
My other favourite film.
Rated 02 Oct 2010
deahutDeahut
Rated 21 Apr 2019
85
83rd
Very nice use of music throughout. Haunting and wonderful depiction of teens attempting to deal with cruelty
Rated 21 Apr 2019
pinkisntwellpinkisntwell
Rated 10 Apr 2015
50
11th
Couldn't tell the characters apart. Admittedly I was impressed, but couldn't tell what the hell was going on.
Rated 10 Apr 2015
aflickeringAFlickering
Rated 29 Mar 2019
5
73rd
"what's this 'ether' you're all talking about?" - Free Bird
Rated 29 Mar 2019
synthonosynthono
Rated 21 Jul 2013
83
63rd
Could use some editing, and the sudden personality change of a certain character feels arbitrary - though I knew people in high school whose personality would change depending on the context, there's something missing in this depiction of that - but it is beautifully shot and has a great soundtrack.
Rated 21 Jul 2013
1qw3er51qw3er5
Rated 14 Jan 2014
8
80th
Exhausting but equally charming. A theme that can, and should be thoroughly examined, and it's done some justice here.
Rated 14 Jan 2014
glm01glm01
Rated 20 Apr 2014
84
79th
83.500
Rated 20 Apr 2014
theficionadotheficionado
Rated 08 Jun 2009
63
61st
Daringly structured and gorgeously shot, it and its story of teenage ennui and alienation still failed to resonate with me.
Rated 08 Jun 2009
feraudFeraud
Rated 29 Jan 2018
12
7th
An almost insulting experience.
Rated 29 Jan 2018
robrob
Rated 27 Feb 2007
16
90th
A glimpse into the cruelties and peculiarities of Japanese high schools, of life on the fringes of popularity, and of finding refuge in beauty when the world seems at its most ugly. At times cold and brutal and at others uplifting, gorgeous cinematography and an even more beautiful soundtrack bring to life this difficult but rewarding story.
Rated 27 Feb 2007
metismetis
Rated 06 Aug 2021
84
81st
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Rated 06 Aug 2021
marnauMarnau
Rated 08 Dec 2011
80
68th
17 Novembre 2011 - Em costa de valorar. Havent-ne vist l'escena inicial diverses vegades feia temps que la tenia pendent. Tot i que segueixo sense entendre com pot funcionar la ment per acabar com certs personatges, en la meva experiència he trobat persones que -sense arribar a aquests extrems- patien canvis d'actitud radicals aparentment irracionals. El muntatge em sembla interessant.
Rated 08 Dec 2011
frankhowleyFrankHowley
Rated 20 Mar 2012
55
19th
Great cinematography and score, but its pace feels too slow for such a long film. It's hard to get into when Sion Sono's Noriko's Dinner Table is far more engaging with its similar subject matter.
Rated 20 Mar 2012
deaddillydeaddilly
Rated 20 Nov 2022
90
93rd
I watched this at 3am getting over a cold in Tokyo and was instantly (literally by the first scene) mesmerized and thrown into a trance. Something about the ethereal soundtrack and the distinctly 2000's proto-chatroom aesthetic. It is disorienting, melodramatic, floating and brutal - an instant personal fav.
Rated 20 Nov 2022
magbMagb
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
73rd
So much was going on that I found it hard to take it all in. I know All About Lily Chou Chou is an excellent movie, but I may have to watch it one more time to fully grasp it.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
mrcimrci
Rated 19 Jun 2022
67
59th
Extravagant cinematography with great score and complicated plot that sometimes is hard to follow. Slightly too long.
Rated 19 Jun 2022
slantmagSlantMag
Rated 19 Oct 2010
30
78th
"She's all-powerful, a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her Bjorkness." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 19 Oct 2010
nothingsnothings
Rated 21 Feb 2014
87
87th
the aesthetic
Rated 21 Feb 2014
glmglm
Rated 07 May 2012
79
63rd
79.375
Rated 07 May 2012
bjacB_Jac
Rated 06 Jul 2010
80
46th
This movie is about jap teens who are obsess with some kind of Japanese bjork.
Rated 06 Jul 2010
feublofeublo
Rated 01 May 2023
100
99th
I can appreciate how much intention is behind each element of this film. The characters allow you to gravitate towards them with different emotions yet synchronized by this dreamy, sad, uplifting pop star. As you meditate with the loss of innocence, there are clear realizations throughout about our human nature. As life presents an uneasiness, they turn back to culture and art for connection.
Rated 01 May 2023
paulofilmopaulofilmo
Rated 23 Apr 2017
73
85th
~~took a couple of goes~~
Rated 23 Apr 2017

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