All About Lily Chou-Chou -Blu-ray-

Product Description **RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON BLU RAY IN NORTH AMERICA** For kids around the world, music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes too much to bear. Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) is in the 8th grade and he worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose epic music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou's big Tokyo concert, where the lies and violence can be washed away by the presence of his goddess and her powerful music. But fate has yet another obstacle in store for Lily's devoted fan. Bonus features include a Making-Of Featurette and essay by Stephen Cremin (deputy director NYAFF). Review WINNER - CICAE Panorama Prize - Berlin Int'l. Film Festival WINNER - Special Jury Award - Shanghai Int'l. Film Festival WINNER - Golden Goblet, Best Music - Shanghai Int'l. Film Festival WINNER - Best New Talent Prize - Yokohama Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Toronto Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - New York Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Seattle Int'l. FIlm Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Karlovy Vary Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Chicago Int'l. Film Festival --- Much of All About Lily Chou-Chou is mesmerizing: some of its plaintiveness could make you weep. - Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times A sprawling and adventurous tale of teen alienation... you absolutely can't miss it. - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon It's a uniquely lonely film, and one of the year's most memorable. --Michael Atkinson, Village VoiceIwai's movie is a remarkable, acutely involving one, working on an emotional level that can only really be expressed through music. - Derek Elley, Variety One of the most haunting, viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory. - Ernest Hardy, LA Weekly Iwai creates Yuichi's world as much through disembodied moments of sight and sound as through action, building to a surprising stab of melancholy. Rating: A- --Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly