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Liz and the Blue Bird

Liz and the Blue Bird

2018
Drama, Fantasy
1h 30m
Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. They're both obsessed with the school's brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness--until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel (Liz and the Blue Bird). (animenewsnetwork.com)
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Liz and the Blue Bird

2018
Drama, Fantasy
1h 30m
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Avg Percentile 62.45% from 87 total ratings

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Rated 07 Nov 2019
80
91st
While I have enjoyed Yamada's previous films, Liz takes a step forward with a formal mastery that goes beyond any of her other works. The sound design amplifies the tiniest movement of the characters' clothes, the characters footsteps follow a steady rhythm in time with the soundtrack. There's musicality to the editing and tactility to every gesture. It's a little underwhelming that this film covers the same thematic bases Yamada has touched on before, but there's simply too much to love.
Rated 17 Nov 2018
100
99th
Anxiety realized in film. Suffocating, intimate, lyrical, and profoundly beautiful. Yamada exudes a love for her characters not unlike Akerman. The influence of the late Futoshi Nishiya's character designs are certainly still being felt today.
Rated 17 Jan 2019
62
22nd
Extremely contained and intense study of a friendship is perhaps not quite as profound as it thinks it is, though it does a fair job of capturing the pressures, strains and cracks which ultimately form between the two girls. Ultimately becomes a little too simplistic and repetitive; might have worked better as a short subject. Beautiful animation and some meditative, abstract moments make it worthwhile.
Rated 31 Jul 2022
100
86th
Gayest artistic powerhouse of a movie , can't be beaten , favourite anime film , Naoko Yamada run the anime industry please
Rated 17 Apr 2023
72
35th
Nicely animated film about a high-school friendship. I couldn't always empathize with the protagonists, and only found out later that this was a spin-off of an anime series I had not seen, but I'd still recommend it to fans of the genre.
Rated 26 Jun 2023
91
67th
It’s a pretty slow movie, and it definitely isn’t going to be for everyone. I really dug it. I thought Yamada’s directing was fascinating, focusing on body language and other random things to emulate how characters are really feeling. It’s also just beautifully animated, especially the illustration of the actual Liz and the Blue Bird. I thought the introvert stuff was very relatable, as was the whole “letting me go” stuff. The lovey-dovey stuff was pretty cute and believable. Short and sweet!
Rated 22 Feb 2021
75
66th
Somewhat insubstantial, though lovely. There are a few really beautiful moments, but ultimately the film is too subtle, and fails to achieve the emotional poignancy I yearned for. It doesn't help that the film fails largely to stand on its own—but I've seen the show, so that's just my impression. Loved the daiski-hug.

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