The film dives deep into the lives of high-school students. In between his sessions in an online chat-room devoted to Lily - rendered as a series of explosive intertitles that interrupt and sometimes overlay the action - Yuichi must navigate a landscape of warring bullies and gangs, sadistic and seductive packs of girls and various grades of clueless, harried adults.” - Andrew O'Hehir. ” Iwai's portrait of Japanese high-school life is dense with compelling detail. The film's content becomes so wide that it is hard to explain it all without writing walls of text and spoiling the film too much. This is as good as it gets when you attempt to make a plot introduction for the film. Beyond that, though, things get murky.” - Andrew O'Hehir, ” "All About Lily Chou-Chou" is mainly the story of Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara), a moody, near-silent teenage boy who's obsessed with a pop singer named, yep, Lily Chou-Chou. O'Hehir makes a reasonable comparison to Truffaut's The 400 Blows because All About Lily Chou-Chou seems to be criticized for the same reasons The 400 Blows is praised. Partly because it had such a strong effect on me, only comparable to my reaction to films like Yi Yi and End of Evangelion. Once my mind had settled down a bit (it hasnt settled completely yet), I felt my criticism felt weaker and weaker so I began to admire the film more gradually. The problem I had at first was that as much as I could praise the film, I could criticize it for the very same things. Then again, some of the same criticisms could apply to François Truffaut's "The 400 Blows," a movie that bears more than a passing similarity to this one.” - Andrew O'Hehir, ” "All About Lily Chou-Chou" is arguably too ambitious, too all-encompassing and too concerned with flouting narrative convention for its own good. I, on the other hand, fell in love with it on this aspect. The difference in reactions to All About Lily Chou-Chou can be mostly reduced to "Your mileage may vary." The film is certainly not easy to get into because it has such a peculiar narrative and it seems there is nothing that essentially ties the film into one solid entirety. ” If your taste runs to "difficult" films you absolutely can't miss it.” - Andrew O'Hehir, To reflect my reaction to the film, my review will be executed in a peculiar way: I take quotes from other reviews and comment on them. 18 hours has passed since I watched the film, but it still has a strong impact on me: I'm bewildered, crazy and touched. Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) took me by surprised and twisted my heart and brain.
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