Genre: Drama
Duration: 109 minuten
Alternative title: Lilya 4-ever
Country:
Sweden / Denmark
Directed by: Lukas Moodysson
Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky and Lyubov Agapova
IMDb score:
7,8 (56.851)
Releasedate: 23 August 2002
Lilja 4-ever plot
The 16-year-old Lilja lives in a poor neighborhood in a city of the former Soviet Union. Her boyfriend is the young boy Volodja. They hang out together in the neighborhood. They fantasize about how life can become easier for them. One day there is a glimmer of hope when Lilja falls in love with Andrej. He asks her to come along to Sweden, where they can build a new life together.
Actors and actresses
Lilja
Volodja
Lilja's Mother
Aunt Anna
Natasha
Andrei
Witek
Neighbor
Sergei
Natasha's Boyfriend
Reviews & comments
knusse stoel
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- 3411 messages
- 4699 votes
Unfortunately, these neighborhoods do exist, I myself lived in such a flat in Poland for half a year. But inside they are sometimes very cozy when the resident does something about his flat and I have seen several. Here with Lilja her mother it is also quite normal according to the standard but then.....if she has to move because aunt puts the money for Lilja in her own pockets, then you see the real poverty dripping off the walls. And so it rumbles on in her young life, everyone except Volodja takes advantage of Lilja. Especially since capitalism has crept into this originally socialist society, certain groups have fallen completely behind. If one cannot find work, then you are at the mercy of another in the vml. Eastern bloc. In the past, if necessary, you got a job in a group of janitors at a school where 1 or 2 was enough. Then you came in as number 5 but you had a job and a guaranteed income as long as you did that work. Nonsense jobs but security.
That is not the case for Lilja, mother runs off to the "rich" west and her daughter leaves them behind. Fight for yourself, fight for survival, if necessary at the expense of someone else!
An impressive, fairly realistic film about a 16-year-old girl in contemporary Russia.
An 8!
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AnyaH
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- 461 messages
- 384 votes
A grey, desolate, sad, penetrating drama film from beginning to end about the unbearable lightness of our existence. I recognized a lot from my travels to Poland, Lithuania, East Germany and Berlin (even before the fall of the wall)......... Grey, monotonous residential areas, all the flats and streets resemble each other, very little green, lots of concrete, a mind numbing environment to live in. What a bastard that Andrei is, a Russian loverboy! The men, young and old, in this film do poorly. The only exception to this is Volodya, who is her most loyal friend, but whom she abandons for her dream..... The bottom line is that they all want to have sex with young girls and pay a lot for it. Unfortunately, really unfortunately this film is very realistic. In the West, many prostitutes of Eastern European descent have been brought here under false pretenses. Towards the end suicide music (as I call it) and then wonderful music by Vivaldi as a closing. The only bright spot in this film is the heavenly redemption through the inevitable death.........
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Shadowed
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- 12106 messages
- 7064 votes
Raw.
Lilja 4-Ever was also a title I once made out of the top 250, and because of the status the film has acquired, I was certainly curious about it. The final experience didn't disappoint me either. I didn't think it was great, but this is a film that eventually finds its way in a decent way.
To begin with, the style of the film is striking. Moodysson opts for a very realistic style that pushes all the dirt and muddy background onto your nose. You have to love it and/or get used to it. It is not beautiful and audiovisually the film has little to offer. It is here the story and the accompanying message that do it for him.
The acting of the young Akinshina can be called strong. As a child she actually does it perfectly. She knows perfectly how to keep the rebellious as well as the innocent look. Supporting roles like Bogucharsky's are also a good fit, and so this is an adult movie where the kids are in charge of the acting, and that's a good thing, because it actually had to be.
The film has some clumsy directing moments, the opening with brutal Rammstein music, for example, is not something I would have done myself to set the tone. Other than that, the movie looks pretty nice. It's not very tight, and maybe not too intense for a long time, but once the ball starts rolling, the film also comes in and then it really starts to live up to its status.
Strong, raw film that mainly relies on its dirty and depressive appearance. Not very interesting from an audiovisual point of view, otherwise a good film that I understand has acquired its high status. Perhaps not such an impossibly intense film, but one that nevertheless reaches the viewer and carries an important message. Good.
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