SummaryMizore Yoroizuka plays the oboe, and Nozomi Kasaki plays the flute in Kita Uji High School concert band. As seniors, this will be their last competition together, and the selected piece “Liz and the Blue Bird” features a duet for the oboe and flute. “This piece reminds me of us,” Nozomi says cheerfully, enjoying the solo, while Mizore's usual hap... Read More
Directed By:Naoko Yamada
Written By:Ayano Takeda, Reiko Yoshida
Liz and the Blue Bird
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Generally Favorable
67
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Generally Favorable
7.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
60% Positive
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Nov 5, 2018
90
Liz and the Blue Bird, while seemingly straightforward and simple, is one of the most structurally complex films about the necessity of communication for healthy relationships. It displays human insecurity and vulnerability in beautifully honest ways.
Nov 5, 2018
78
There are no violent clashes or extraneous drama about boys. Instead, it's a simple and tender portrait of how friendships aren't always forever.
User score
Generally Favorable
80% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
10% Mixed
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Jul 31, 2020
10
The soundtrack, the visuals, the story, everything about this movie is beautiful, it retraits perfectly the relationship of the girls, and how they grown up, through the cinematography, you can feel what they are feeling, it's just amazing.
The soundtrack of this film is just the best i've ever seen, it connects perfectly with the visuals and the theme, at the beggining for example, the rhythm is composed in coprime numbers to represent that the girls are disjointed, it's a masterpiece in itself.
The use of limited perspectives makes us fell the angst, the sadness etc. The use of colour is amazing too, everything about this is perfect. It is the thing I liked the most in my entire existence. I realy loved it.
Mar 24, 2020
10
Naoko Yamada's feature "Liz and the Blue Bird" exemplifies the powers of the medium of Japanese animation, allowing itself to revel in all the nuances of the brilliantly but subtle world.
Nov 15, 2018
70
Like in A Silent Voice, Yamada has a very keen eye for depicting adolescent malaise in visually evocative terms, and Liz and the Blue Bird could have benefited from even more flights of fancy than she allows for here.
Nov 5, 2018
60
The story was painfully dull to me, and the entire thing (aside from the aforementioned storybook sequences) takes place in a dull looking school setting with hardly any change of scenery to break up the dreadful monotony. As far as the story goes, it’s a painfully basic story about two friends growing apart from one another. The drama here is as low-stakes as it gets.
Nov 8, 2018
50
Liz and the Blue Bird may appeal to fans of “Sound Euphonium,” but many recent Japanese features have dealt with teen friendships and angst in more interesting ways.
Jun 6, 2019
9
The Best Musical/Drama movie eve i ****'s about side history of Sound! Euphonium that great engrandece the universe development the relationship of two cute and beautiful characters!. I Love it!
Production Company:
- Kyoto Animation
- Bandai Namco Arts
- Pony Canyon
- Rakuonsha
- Animation DO
Release Date:Nov 9, 2018
Duration:1 h 30 m
Awards
IGN Summer Movie Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
