![]() Iwai tracks the unhappy life of 15-year-old Hasumi (Hayato Ichihara), relentlessly bullied and humiliated by another boy his age, Hoshino (Shugo Oshinari). Like other Japanese directors - Shinji Aoyoma, Kinji Fukasaku and Hirokazu Koreeda - Iwai addresses the violent rage and yearning of being young. Its images and quirky, cranky design return to the mind's eye long after the final credits. Yet it passes a distinctive cinematic test which other, more easily watchable films fail: it stays with you. It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque. ![]() All About Lily Chou-Chou **** Dir: Shunji Iwai With: Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Ayumo Ito, Takao Osawa 146 minutes, cert 15 Shunji Iwai's spacey, torpid dream-epic of youthful angst and escapism in modern Japan is a movie in which you can find yourself pleasantly drifting, as if suspended in warm water, knowing little and caring less about the elusive narrative.
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