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Director Shunji Iwai is most comfortable chronicling the magic and heartbreak of high school years, and HANA AND ALICE emerges as an intimate, stylish, and often quietly amusing character portrait. The strengths of the story come from the chemistry of ordinary characters filmed in a loose narrative.
As a result, don't expect a fast-moving plot heavy on easy humor or bawdry. HANA AND ALICE certainly has its memorable quirks, but nearly all of Ieai's films, the narrative is naturalistic, the story fairly long (at two hours, fifteen minutes). As you might expect, the film-making itself is the strongest of its assets, with often striking photography.
score 5/10
poikkeus 17 February 2009
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