#All about lily chou chou story movie#

Iwai quickly establishes the tribal aspects of the kids' friendships, often making things clear just by capturing their body language he's hypnotized by them. Shugo then takes a sudden turn into bullying, which sends loyalties scattering throughout the school. He doesn't fit into his school, especially after his close bond with his only friend, Shugo (Shusuke Hoshino), evaporates. ''Lily Chou-Chou'' is mostly about Hayato (Yuichi Hasumi), a lonely and shy boy who goes by the name ''Lily-philia'' on a fan's Web site. Their misbehavior is all the more awful because it doesn't stem from rage or volatility these kids are just caught up in the hormonal surges that often lead to casual brutality. This opus by the writer and director Shunji Iwai is an epic about junior high alienation and the wanton cruelty of early teenagers: ''I Vitelloni,'' Fellini's realist masterpiece about alienated youth, with an even more self-absorbed and dangerous crowd.

She is a songbird given to lush and lyrical flights that unleash the inner child in chat rooms around the world.

#All about lily chou chou story movie#

She's never really seen Lily occupies the movie only as a force that permeates the lives of the Japanese junior high school kids who are fixated on her and bombard one another - and the movie screen - with instant messages about the effects she has on their lives. The Lily Chou-Chou referred to in the title is a fictive pop star, an exquisite victim persona combining Bjork, Sarah McLachlan and Kate Bush. In the early days of MTV - the ''I want my MTV'' days - one of the cable outlet's slogans was ''too much is never enough.'' The same attitude could apply to ''All About Lily Chou-Chou,'' which offers an onslaught of feelings and footage that's quite daunting. The film, in Japanese with English subtitles, opens today at the Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, Greenwich Village. Following are excerpts from Elvis Mitchell's review, which appeared in The New York Times on Oct. ''All About Lily Chou-Chou'' was shown as part of last year's New York Film Festival.