While some found the story's ambiguity frustrating, the film's lyricism drew praise.Īll About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Sh?suke Hoshino and Y?ichi Hasumi, from the start of junior middle school when they first meet, and into the eighth grade. These features, which have led the film to be described as restless or "explosive", are viewed by critics as efforts to artistically evoke the emotional lives of disaffected Japanese youth.Ĭritics mostly expressed positive views on All About Lily Chou-Chou. The film is noted for an unconventional visual style which includes many jump cuts and shots with disjunctive contents, as well as for an elliptical narrative. All About Lily Chou-Chou (, Rir? Shushu no Subete) is a 2001 Japanese film, written and directed by Shunji Iwai, that portrays the lives of 14-year-old students in Japan and the effect the enigmatic singer Lily Chou-Chou's music has on some of them.
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