Aleksander Dorosjkevitch, Anastasiya Bedredinova, Artyom Bogucharsky
Lilya is a teenage Russian girl whose best friend is a glue-sniffing street urchin, Volodya, and whose mother has recently run away to live in America, abandoning her. Eager to start a new life, Lilya...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005
Stats: 853 reviews
Astonishing, depressing, bleak, disturbing, Mind blowing, Breathtaking, an absolute masterpiece! What more could you ask for from one of the world?s best directors?
Kicking off with some Rammstein, Lilya 4-Ever demands your attention before settling down. It doesn't rain, it pisses it down in Lilya 4-Ever. A dark and depressing drama set in Eastern Europe. Lilya is a young girl with dreams of escaping her impoverished lifestyle. She believes...( read more)
Screen time is devoted almost entirely to Lilya and her 14 year glue sniffing friend Volyada. Both performances are well-executed and believable by these two young people. This is the second film I've seen by Swedish writer/director Lukas Moodysson. The other was Fucking Åmål (Sh...( read more)
This is probably one of the greatest films of the last years. It's so human, from-the-heart, full of tragedy and pain, fearless, emotional, powerful with an amazing ending and a dynamite soundtrack. Russia proves that its cinema beats a lot of other countries' cinema.
A masterpiece made by a talented swedish director. If this movie doesn't get some emotions from you, you probably have a heart of stone... An amateur cast provides nothing less than an all-star performance.
Realy very tragic story. For the first moment this woman make me feel so sad at heart, so desapointed about the lost hopes, the violence, the women souls and bodies unsctrupulous manipulators . Sometimes it was so difficult to watch, so I closed my eyes. I saw her face and I fee...( read more)
A tragic story about human trafficking.
This flick directed by Swedish director Lukas Moodysson shows the portrait of a Russian 16-year-old girl leaving for Sweden. Lured by a friendly Russian young man Lilya (who is left behind by both her parents as an unwanted child) f...( read more)
Worth every uncomfortable minute. full review
I read of thousands of women from Eastern Europe who are lured into virtual slavery. I hope some of their clients will attend this movie, even if for the wrong reasons, and see what they are responsib... full review
Lukas Moodysson, a young Swedish director, crafts a stunner of a film out of familiar turf. full review
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