Liz und der Blaue Vogel (2018)

Liz und der Blaue Vogel: Directed by Naoko Yamada. With Atsumi Tanezaki, Nao Tôyama, Miyu Honda, Konomi Fujimura. Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. They’re both obsessed with the school’s brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness, until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel – “Liz and the Blue Bird”. Immersed in this story, Mizore and Nozomi begin to realize that there may be no such thing as being together forever.

“Liz and the blue bird is so impressionistic, with a sense of adjourning, but fully indicate everything that is needed to be understand – intimately – without a need to say anything.”