My favorite movie by far is called Lilja 4-Ever, it was released in 2002. Its director was Lukas Moodysson, and it tells the story of a girl called Lilja Michailova, who lives in an undetermined soviet country which is the place where the movie develops.
Lilja is a little girl, who is abandoned by her mother and is almost left for dead alone under the tutelage of one of her aunts, who treats her very bad. She is angry and sad, but ingenuous about the people around her. She's friend with a boy called Volodya who is her companion in the most turbulent moments in the film.
She then hangs out with a friend who introduces her to the world of prostitution and sex trafficking, which is the main concept in the film. How prostitution and being alone merges into a spiral of self destruction that affects the protagonist.
The movie is 109 minutes long and its main language is russian and it has been awarded by several film festivals.
I like this movie because it shows a very bleak photography with a soviet/russian aesthetics that pleases me very much. The story is crude and it shows a very tormenting context for the characters, and how they cope with all that suffering.
Lilja is a little girl, who is abandoned by her mother and is almost left for dead alone under the tutelage of one of her aunts, who treats her very bad. She is angry and sad, but ingenuous about the people around her. She's friend with a boy called Volodya who is her companion in the most turbulent moments in the film.
She then hangs out with a friend who introduces her to the world of prostitution and sex trafficking, which is the main concept in the film. How prostitution and being alone merges into a spiral of self destruction that affects the protagonist.
The movie is 109 minutes long and its main language is russian and it has been awarded by several film festivals.
I like this movie because it shows a very bleak photography with a soviet/russian aesthetics that pleases me very much. The story is crude and it shows a very tormenting context for the characters, and how they cope with all that suffering.
Lilja and Volodya
