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CAST & CREW
Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Yuu Aoi
Directed by Shunji Iwai
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SYNOPSIS
Ah, to be young again and experience anew the horror show that is youth. In Shunji Iwai's ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU there is nothing redeeming about the adolescent years. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 54 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 12, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Cowboy Booking International
GENRE
Dramas, Pop Music, Teenage, Murder, Cult, Rock Bands, Internet
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official All About Lily Chou-Chou Site
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PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Confusion is one of my least favourite emotions, especially when I have to put up with 146 minutes of it."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
 "The gutsy film didn't help itself by making it so difficult to follow the story and by being so morose."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"A film that's flawed and brilliant in equal measure."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
"Meandering and confusing."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"Unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"A difficult, absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
"I'm not sure All About Lily Chou-Chou made sense in my head, but it made sense in my heart."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"One of the most haunting, viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory."
-- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY
"Along with the Internet culture associated with it, this builds a provoking but nonjudgmental commentary about the ways in which teens may escape communication."
-- Rachel Gordon, FILMCRITIC.COM
"A film of quiet power."
-- El Topo, IOFILM.CO.UK
"For all its impressive craftsmanship, and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos, Lily Chou-Chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam."
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
"... captures the pain and desperation of adolescent powerlessness and humiliation with powerful intimacy..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
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-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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"A woefully dull, redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation, despite Iwai’s vaunted empathy."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"While the story's undeniably hard to follow, Iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"...confronts the destructive power of teen alienation in modern-day Japan head-on."
-- Anthony Leong, MEDIACIRCUS
"Perhaps no greater example yet exists of the beauty achievable when one is a master of the digital aesthetic."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"A film that perfectly distills the relationship between pop music and teens searching for identity."
-- Pam Grady, REEL.COM
"She's all-powerful, a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her Bjorkness."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"While this has the making of melodrama, the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain, producing a work that's more interested in asking questions than in answering them."
-- David Ehrenstein, NEW TIMES
"Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou Chou is a beautifully shot, but ultimately flawed film about growing up in Japan."
-- Mike Bracken, MIKE BRACKEN'S HORROR FILMS
"One thing is for sure: This movie does not tell you a whole lot about Lily Chou-Chou."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
-- Click to read the article.
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
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FRESH 73%
Avg. Rating: 7.2/10 |
"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."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Poignant Japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"Iwai creates Yuichi's world as much through disembodied moments of sight and sound as through action, building to a surprising stab of melancholy."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"If your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely can't miss it."
-- Andrew O'Hehir, SALON.COM
"A nearly 21/2 hours, the film is way too indulgent."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"A hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
"Much of All About Lily Chou-Chou is mesmerizing: some of its plaintiveness could make you weep."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"For all of its insights into the dream world of teen life, and its electronic expression through cyber culture, the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"This movie is maddening. It conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Once you get into its rhythm ... the movie becomes a heady experience."
-- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"It's a uniquely lonely film, and one of the year's most memorable."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
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"At an indulgent two and a half hours, the film plays like a poetry reading that drags on too long."
-- E! ONLINE
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