The Japanese youth film All About Lily Chou Chou will always be a movie that I greatly admire. The depths of feeling that it calls for... Wow. Just one of the greatest films I've seen.

A couple of films make me go all gaga when they're just so full-on the whole way. Lol. Like how my senses were all totally overwhelmed by Baz Luhrmann's (director of Moulin Rouge!) Romeo + Juliet, and Spanish film The Motorcycle Diaries, as directed by American director Walter Salles. It's about the journey (across South America) and memoirs of Ernesto Guevara at 23 years old, who would become internationally known as Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

Anyway, all these films are mad. Madly good. Explosion of sight, sound and feeling. They're fantastic.

I don't know when's the time to come across films like this. It just happens. Once every couple of months. Hehheh.

"The film received a standing ovation at the 2004 Sundance film festival." -- Wikipedia entry for The Motorcycle Diaries

I borrowed a DVD copy of The Motorcycle Diaries when its cover caught my eye at the RMIT audio-visual library, lying at a slant against the bookshelf holder on the bottommost shelf. I didn't know what exactly it was all about, but the scenes on the travels looked great on the cover, and it sure is great.

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All About Lily Chou Chou and Quentin Taratino's Kill Bill have one same song on their film soundtracks. Cooools.