
Girls are friends, girls are not friends, girls come and go, but the band plays on in this film about a high school quartet with only three days to find a stable line-up, choose songs, rehearse and climb the stage at the rock music show of their annual festival. A foreign exchange student as a singer, a sullen guitarist, a shy bassist and a tom girl are a soaking wet band in a high school auditorium.... (Full plot summary below)
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Girls are friends, girls are not friends, girls come and go, but the band plays on in this film about a high school quartet with only three days to find a stable line-up, choose songs, rehearse and climb the stage at the rock music show of their annual festival. A foreign exchange student as a singer, a sullen guitarist, a shy bassist and a tom girl are a soaking wet band in a high school auditorium.
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| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSounds like silly fun -- and Linda Linda Linda is -- but it is also an extremely well-written, emotionally complex coming-of-age tale that has a John Hughesian respect for teenage angst. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIf The Beatles were teen girls starring in a John Hughes picture made with a distinctly Japanese attention to the comedy of everyday life, the movie showcasing it all would go something like this. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordDoona Bae shines as the adorably awkward teenager who's never met a stage she's afraid of. |
| Seattle TimesTed FryIt's the kind of high-school movie about kids and music that Hollywood would never be able to capture with such intimacy, nuance and restraint. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker... a lively, engaging, character-driven piece with flourishes of offbeat humor... |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe irritations and tedium of high school life are staged with refreshing simplicity, while the performers interact with an age-appropriate naturalness the American teenage movie rarely achieves. |
| Honolulu Star-AdvertiserBurl BurlingameThe movie provides a fine, shiny reminiscence of school days, when learning three guitar chords in the right order was the most important thing in the world. |
| eye WEEKLYAdam NaymanDirector Nobuhiro Yamashita seems to be aiming for a laconic deadpan tone, yet the static camera work and even-keel pacing elicit more yawns than chuckles. |
| User ReviewEmeline Sahh génialissime ce film. Linda lindaaaaaaa-- linda linda lindaaaaaaaaaa |
| User ReviewDerek JEasily my favorite movie of the month. Not as candy-coated as you'd expect, and surprising at every other turn as well. Low-key naturalism rules the day, but the snatches of pop you hear throughout pay off. |