All About Lily Chou-Chou
dir. Shunji Iwai
2001

All About Lily Chou-Chou is yet another one of those films about which I could write a book, and so, I will probably spend so much time trying to collect my thoughts that I will never getting around to finishing this post.

In the mean time, I will say this: I consider myself lucky to be among the "handful of highly evolved film watchers," as Roger Ebert puts it in his unfavorable review. While I agree with Ebert that the film is very "enigmatic, oblique and meandering," I think All About Lily Chou-Chou and it's exploration of adolescence and bullies will still resonate with anyone who gets to experience the film. Part of me wants so badly to share this film with everyone I know, to make them love it as much as I love it, and yet the selfish part of me takes comfort in the notion that I am one of the few people who will ever really appreciate such a beautiful a film as this.