Featured Audience Ratings

• Luke B

  
  Probably the most pointless and irritating watch since Gummo. The film has nothing to say, or anything entertaining to offer. We are assaulted by a stream of unconscious, disgusting visuals. The film is also mindlessly repetitive and just becomes like a scratched CD of some cheap… More
  Probably the most pointless and irritating watch since Gummo. The film has nothing to say, or anything entertaining to offer. We are assaulted by a stream of unconscious, disgusting visuals. The film is also mindlessly repetitive and just becomes like a scratched CD of some cheap erotica. Moodysson ventures into the world of the experimental, but instead, just insults everyone's intelligence. Art has to say something, and if it wants to depict the harshness of humanity, there should at least be some sort of emotional focus point. Without the emotion, it's just three people in a room, being disgusting.

• Anthony L

  
  I think Lukas Moodysson has been a little misunderstood in this film. A hole in my Heart was quite badly received which I think is quite unfair but I think he's probably got over it by now. All great artists are misunderstood when they are producing their best work. He has shown… More
  I think Lukas Moodysson has been a little misunderstood in this film. A hole in my Heart was quite badly received which I think is quite unfair but I think he's probably got over it by now. All great artists are misunderstood when they are producing their best work. He has shown us he can do uplifting comedy/drama and character based films excellently in Show me Love and Together. He can also knock us for six with powerful portrayals of poverty, humiliation & depression and somehow turn them into beauty (Lilja 4-ever). Here, he tackles a nasty side of human behaviour in an experimental way. I say experimental, I believe he knew what he was doing 100% of the time! I would urge people to watch the short film A second hole in my heart in the DVD extras, as Moodysson pokes fun at himself, the critics and the audience. I think only he could get away with it too! This is a disgusting film and I probably won?t watch it again. Although I believe this should be put on the school syllabus, as it?s a very important film with an important message. If I watch it again, it will be because I'm about to film my own movie and it is a great place to get inspiration for young filmmakers. Not his best film but maybe his most important (although I can see why people don't like it) It might make you think twice the next time you download some nasty porn film (you dirty sod!)

• Nicki M

  
  Definitely not easy watching, and not for everyone. This movie is about four pretty screwed up people. A young girl who is so demented her main tragedy in life seems to be not getting onto Big Brother, gets involved with two low life guys, (one of whom you are meant to have sympathy… More
  Definitely not easy watching, and not for everyone. This movie is about four pretty screwed up people. A young girl who is so demented her main tragedy in life seems to be not getting onto Big Brother, gets involved with two low life guys, (one of whom you are meant to have sympathy for because it turns out he was molested as a child by his father), both pretty damn unlikable, who are making a porn movie. While this girl is getting degraded in all manner of ways, yet still either so self loathing or desperate for fame, (which it is not clearly spelt out here), that she keeps coming back for more and alternates between hating and loving her abusers, the emo teenage son of one of the guys has fallen in love with her. I could not honestly say I enjoyed this as it really is pretty horrible, but I could not turn it off either.

• Walter M

  
  [font=Century Gothic]With "A Hole in My Heart", writer and director Lukas Moodysson's intent is to show that all we need is a hug and some tender loving care. This is a completely worthy sentiment but Moodysson takes an extremely unpleasant path to that… More
  [font=Century Gothic]With "A Hole in My Heart", writer and director Lukas Moodysson's intent is to show that all we need is a hug and some tender loving care. This is a completely worthy sentiment but Moodysson takes an extremely unpleasant path to that conclusion:[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]Tess(Sanna Brading) is a 21 year old woman hoping to get her start in pornographic films by starring in an amateur film with Richard(Thorsten Flinck) and Geko(Goran Marjanovic). The footage shot is as degrading and ugly as possible, interlaced with gruesome shots of surgery and dolls.(I don't understand the surgery but at least I get the dolls...) While all of this is going on, Richard's grown, withdrawn son, Eric(Bjorn Almroth), stays in his room.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]Coupled with his previous movie, "Lilya-4-Ever", I am starting to get the impression that Lukas Moodysson has a mile-wide puritanical streak and just views sex as something exploitative and demeaning towards women, when in fact most people tend to think of it as kind of fun.[/font]