Metrograph

The titular twosome are childhood friends—Alice (Yū Aoi) forthcoming; Hana (Anne Suzuki), withholding—whose bond slackens when they arrive at high school and begin to discover boys, one of whom Hana bamboozles into being her boyfriend by convincing him he’s had a bout of amnesia. Developed from a series of shorts that Iwai made for KitKat chocolate bars in Japan, with a lush, wistful chamber music score by the filmmaker himself, Hana and Alice is as sprightly and light-footed as All About Lily Chou-Chou was dark and brooding, but both films are united by their experimentation with the new possibilities of digital cinematography and their rare understanding of the turbulent emotions of teenagers.

Distributor: Rockwell Eyes

Introduction by director Shunji Iwai on Sunday, June 7th