Lilya 4-ever (2002)
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.
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It's no accident that her faraway look mirrors that of the young runaway at the close of François Truffaut's "The 400 Blows."
Put it in the same category as The War Zone and The Sweet Hereafter - movies about intimate tragedies whose impact wrenches both the heart and the mind.
Put it in the same category as The War Zone and The Sweet Hereafter - movies about intimate tragedies whose impact wrenches both the heart and the mind.
His first feature, 1997's Show Me Love, was even described by Bergman as "a young master's first masterpiece."
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson�s first two films were, at their best, much more than interesting: the first was the teen lesbian love story Fucking Åmål (released in the US under the wimpier title Show Me Love), and the second was Together, a study of life at a �70s commune.
Moodysson, whose "Together" and "Show Me Love" established him as an international filmmaker to be reckoned with, doesn't quite top himself here.
Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodyson's first two films, "Show Me Love" and "Together," were wonderfully subtle portraits of people's complicated lives and loves.
Show Me Love , a poignant drama about a teen girl's coming of age, and Together , about life in a '70s commune, introduced Moodysson to the international film-going community, and showed him to be a craftsman of some talent - an accomplished cinematic storyteller whose skill behind a camera belies his relative inexperience.
And as such, it's a drastic departure for writer-director Lukas Moodysson, whose previous films include the enjoyably sweet "Show Me Love" (1998) and "Together" (2000).
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Swedish director Lukas Moodysson�s first two films were, at their best, much more than interesting: the first was the teen lesbian love story Fucking Åmål (released in the US under the wimpier title Show Me Love), and the second was Together, a study of life at a �70s commune.
Moodysson, whose "Together" and "Show Me Love" established him as an international filmmaker to be reckoned with, doesn't quite top himself here.
Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodyson's first two films, "Show Me Love" and "Together," were wonderfully subtle portraits of people's complicated lives and loves.
In Fucking Amal and Together, the films that established his international reputation, the adults didn't intend harm to their kids; they were just too self-obsessed to see what was happening.
Show Me Love , a poignant drama about a teen girl's coming of age, and Together , about life in a '70s commune, introduced Moodysson to the international film-going community, and showed him to be a craftsman of some talent - an accomplished cinematic storyteller whose skill behind a camera belies his relative inexperience.
And as such, it's a drastic departure for writer-director Lukas Moodysson, whose previous films include the enjoyably sweet "Show Me Love" (1998) and "Together" (2000).
Lilya is movingly acted by Oksana Akinshina, who delivers a gripping performance on a par with Jodie Foster's unforgettable turn in "Taxi Driver."
Compare this to Breaking the Waves , which, in the final analysis, is all about God; the social content extends mainly to its working-class milieu and its last-laugh judgment on the villagers who stand around clucking over Bess' behavior.
I'm talking Leaving Las Vegas bleak.