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The film stars Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Brian Webber, Ian McKellen and Mick Jagger.

“Bent,” which follows one man’s struggle to maintain his dignity while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, was adapted in 1997 by Sean Mathias from the award-winning 1979 play by Martin Sherman. The drama takes place in a rundown neighborhood in Mexico City where three people’s lives intertwine beginning one Sunday afternoon with two men in love with the tarot reader’s daughter, played by Salma Hayek in her first major role.

A sublimation of everyday life into a film of nearly mythical proportions, anchored in tragedy.“Midaq Alley,” directed by Jorge Fons, won 49 international awards, including 11 Ariel Awards upon its release in 1995. From chatroom hyperlink text to the budding digital cinematography that enhances the film with a disturbing intimacy, Iwai depicts a culture still dominated by CD sales, anticipation for the incoming gaming consoles and, most importantly, a growing feeling of doom-and-gloom vis-à-vis the new millennium. The defining film of an era (rivaled perhaps only by Hideaki Anno’s LOVE AND POP released a few years prior) ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU stands today as an exhilarating chronicle of teen angst and a high point in Shunji Iwai’s career for the ways in which it pushes the medium in new directions and perfectly encapsulates the myriad textures of the late ’90s and early 2000s. With ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU, Shunji Iwai’s coming-of-age cinema transitions towards a more clearly defined genre space, complicating expected tropes with a powerful glimpse into darkness and a potent look at a generation’s growing, media-saturated malaise. The teens discover their identities, affirm their passion and the slippery distinction between right and wrong as their embattled psychic landscapes are laid bare on the virtual walls of an Internet chatroom – pulsing to the pangs of a powerful, all-consuming fandom. Lily Chou-Chou’s music becomes a shared gateway into their tumultuous lives over the course of a few, formative years of adolescence.

Among them, the shy Shuichi (Hayato Ichihara) and the bullish Shusuke (Shugo Oshinari). Mysterious, ethereal dream-pop star Lily Chou-Chou dominates the charts, and the hearts of middle schoolers across Japan.