The subject matter is really harsh, however there's a tenderness to the way Moodysson approaches the protagonist, all the while without sacrificing the realism. Lead Oksana Akinshina provides a captivating performance, and the even younger Artyom Bogucharskiy is also convincing. The film is notable for showing how neglect and abuse stack up in various (interconnected) forms thus trapping the protagonist; that being said, the final part is weaker, and the metaphysics are a little too on the nose.

idk; i guess it does a good job portraying a sad story... i just wasn't really affected by it quite so much as others were.

Brutal and harsh. The camera work gives it a documentary or reality 온라인카지노추천 feel that makes the injustice and darkness of the story stick to you in the most haunting of ways. It's not easy to shake. An extremely bleak movie depicting a reality that devastatingly isn't fictional in our world.

the scene of her mother leaving, I died crying.

A 16-year-old finds herself alone in the world and tries to get by. Subtitled in English.

Cruda, grafica y potente pelicula sobre la vida de la joven Lilyan en la pobreza y la soledad.

Do not watch this movie if you're in a good mood. Excellent movie, but one I will never watch again.

This movie was truly upsetting and I cried for days after watching it. I wanted to give Lilya a big hug. I recommend this movie to everyone who can handle it. I still think about this movie from time to time and it had a really big impact on me.

I'm going to call this an experimental film. Not for any innovations in form or genre, not for some exquisite, complicated purpose, but for its relentless stubbornness to never, under any circumstance, show any signs of light through the darkness. We have all seen movies rejoicing and thriving in getting us lower and lower into an abyss of misery and suffering, we have all seen proudly depressing movies, but I, personally, have never seen a movie refusing time and again to let go of the darkness. And this is not a good thing. Lilya 4-ever is, at the end of the day, gratuitously dark. It pretty much made its point thirty minutes into the script, but then it just kept overselling it, just for the sake of showing us that it's gritty and balsy. Good job, Lukas Moodysson, you are edgy as hell and you did manage to be so in a story that's more than coherent, if a little too exaggerated for a film with cinéma vérité aspirations. The soundtrack is overdone, the dream sequences a little too... on the nose and the acting isn't even that good except for lead Oksana Akinshina. On top of that, I really don't like a movie that makes me want to cry in the shower every twenty minutes without giving me a little hope at the end. I'm sorry, but ultimately experimental does not equate to good.

Lilya 4 ever is well shot and the central character is played by a wonderful actor. In fact I cannot fault much in in terms of direction or acting in this film. However it is about desperately hard circumstances in the former Soviet Union and human trafficking. The story is bleak and unrelenting; offering just more tragedy in an interesting and well shot picture. However I don't feel I have taken anything away from this film than a sad impression.

A bleak retelling of a tragic real-life story, Lilya 4-Ever manages to cover very dark and disturbing subject matter without being exploitative or unnecessarily graphic. The camera doesn't linger on the violence or abuse and the filmmakers don't revel in the misery of our lead character. The film is more concerned with the person the horrible events happened to, and not the events themselves. Its only about 30 minutes from the end of the film when the crux of the story actually comes to the fore. The rest of the time is spent with our heroine, who is abandoned by her family and neglected by those around her. Oksana Akinshina makes an excellent lead, thoroughly convincing as a school-aged girl suddenly thrust into an adult world, and its her down to earth nature and fundamental decency that make us like her so much and feel sorry for her when she's betrayed. The film does have its flaws, including a frequently intrusive sountrack, repetitive dream sequences and the unnecessary trope of beginning the film with a clip from the climax, but overall it's a solidly made and compelling look at a life cut short because of abuse and exploitation, and helps shine a light on human trafficking and sexual slavery, 2 things which have absolutely no place in any form of society.

Dark but somehow beautiful. It was easy to feel the actors and the environment. Not a film to watch if feeling melancholic because it can disturb you for a long time.

This film had me in tears already eight minutes into it. No film has made me cry as much as this one. It did its job well in that regard. One of the best film ever made.

Love this movie from the depths of my heart. Gets me crying every time, and the fact that it's based on a real girl's story adds to its impact. Fly high, angels.

This movie reminded me of the bleak Russian landscapes that Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko novels inhabit. There are no grown-ups in Lilya's world, in the sense of an adult who feels any sense of obligation to do right for children, even teenagers. Exploit or abandon are the only options.

emotional and thought provoking film. I would highly recommend it.

the most tragic story I've ever seen, to the extent that it is scary that this could be reality.

Um tiro doeria menos que esse filme.

Lukas Moodysson's social realist drama is a relentlessly grim and hard to stomach depiction of teen prostitution in eastern Europe that's worth enduring thanks in no small part to Akinsjina's heart wrenching, scarily real turn as Lilya. Her plight is the plight of child sex workers all around the world and you'd have a heart of stone if you were left unaffected by it. Yet in the midst of all this misery lies a strangely life affirming message.

http://letterboxd.com/zbender/film/lilya-4-ever/ This film was one of the more disheartening I have seen in a long time. It comes with a very simple, but still powerful message. This film didn't necessarily enhance the message (the message to me was to essentially live long/prosper despite all the misery you may endure). But it still is powerful to those who forget how important this one life is. The movie did not essentially jump out to me, besides the powerful narrative, the main character Lilja, and what she endures. Despite all the bad that we may endure there are always better days.