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Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060034570561
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 203987
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The pain and suffering of junior high is always good movie fodder, and in All About Lily Chou-Chou the topic gets an unfamiliar and moody airing. Director Shunji Iwai takes a discursive, sometimes baffling look into the life of a bullied kid whose misery is broken by his worship of a pop star, Lily Chou-Chou. Internet chat room exchanges punctuate the film's narrative, as Yuichi and his anonymous Lily-philes share their intoxication with the 'Ether'--the mystery of life that Lily's voice somehow illuminates. The film's style (and length) offer little in the way of traditional movie-watching pleasure, and the mystifying storytelling will have some viewers giving up in exasperation. Still, the portrait of adolescent loneliness rings true, and the ferocity of school bullying is laid bare. On the latter subject, this film is a little like the kill-or-be-killed apocalypse of Battle Royale, without the fantasy overlay. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - All About Nothing
WTF!!!! All you three and above star reviewers need to get your heads back on the ground! This movie was nothing but a bunch of gloomy moody teenagers. Big f-ing deal. It happens everyday in every school. This movie tries to pull a veil over your eyes with stylized visuals and music that makes me want to strangle my dog. If this movie were made in the US with the same exact style and english script but with A-list hollywood actors it would be panned. You know it.
Rating:  - A 21st century classic, but poor DVD transfer
To get it out of the way, this DVD by Home Vision is a poor transfer which does a great injustice to a beautifully shot classic. It's a grainy, blurry travesty... BUT, it's the easiest way to see the film in English.
As for the movie itself, All About Lily Chou-Chou is a Japanese film portraying the lives of Japanese high school students engaged in, well, the darkest and worst aspects of human behavior. This came out amidst a wave of Japanese "teens gone wild" films, the most notorious ... Read More
Rating: - Simply put...
...this is a wonderful film. Fanstastic music, cinematography, acting, and story. A brilliant piece of work from director Shunji Iwai. My favorite film of all time. Buy it. Now.
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Rating: - Mostly about nothing
Compiled mostly from the internet stories of Japanese kids, ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU is as visionary as it is excsssive, and equal parts riveting and excruciatingly dull. The fact that we're talking abou the same film suggests that there's a wild inconsistency in Shunji Iwai's story.
The story, as such, is remarkably simple: a bullied teenage boy in rural Japan retreats into a fannish love for pop idol Lily Chou Chou, whose ballads embody his isolation and hopelessness. The onus of bullyiing ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful, mesmerizing, and perhaps one of the most nostalgic movies around.
Simply put, this is a new favorite of mine. It's gone to the top of my list, and will for surely stay there for quite some time.
Everything about the movie is fantastic. The acting, the directing, the story... Especially the use of light and natural beauty. Really, somehow Shunji Iwai has conquered the impossible: he's captured some of the most beautiful images I've ever seen on film. And the best thing is, those images have meaning. The film's other highest point is the soundtrack: it's absolutely ... Read More
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