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Aleksander Dorosjkevitch, Anastasiya Bedredinova, Artyom Bogucharsky, Elina Benenson, Jevgeni Gurov
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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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.
A depressing tragedy set in Eastern Europe. Really? Again? No! This is not the classic movie you imagine it to be. Shockingly true and not exactly cathartic in its ending, the film grabs you and shakes you from the start to the very end.
Cruda película rusa sobre la vida de una niña que queda cuasi huérfana en los suburbios. Podría ser una versión muy ruda de B-Happy, para hacer el paralelo nacional. El lado B de Europa y una visita a la situación social de la Rusia post soviética.
