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12/06/05
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Lilya 4-Ever (2003)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:56
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A tragic, hard-hitting story about a teenager trapped in a life of prostitution.
Theatrical Release:Apr 18, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: From the first devastating moments of LILYA 4-EVER, as the cherubic 16-year-old protagonist (Oksana Akinshina) staggers, broken and beaten to a pulp, down the sidewalk of a bleak and unidentifiable... [More]
Starring: Oksana Akinshina, Artiom Bogucharski, Elina Benenson, Liliya Shinkaryova
Director: Lukas Moodysson
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Reviews for Lilya 4-Ever
Grim but honest, and young Oksana Akinshina is glorious.
04/17/03
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12/30/06
It's something that just might stick with you 4-Ever.
04/18/03
What Lilja 4-Ever has in common with the greatest films is its spiritual transcendence. Don't miss it.
05/16/03
Top CriticThis sober, unsparing drama, strong if unambitious, is probably as perfectly characteristic a specimen of serious European filmmaking as any movie ever made.
04/18/03
Top CriticThe film's achievement ... is to bring us as deeply as anyone since Japan's great Kenji Mizoguchi has into the mind and heart of a woman who, culturally as well as economically, is too easily checked off as a commodity.
04/18/03
It is undeniable that Moodysson's work has a raw emotional power that transcends most of the film's flaws.
02/24/05
An unflinching portrait of brutally wrested-away innocence... an acute and moving downward spiral.
04/21/03
So seamless and relentlessly powerful that the social-realism of not just this film, but the genre itself, is pushed to its limit. Acting and action that rips so deeply, you'll feel you've got to do more than simply watch.
02/26/09
Manipulative and reductive though it may be, it's a film that clearly takes place in the real world.
05/07/03
Akinshina, a gorgeous and extraordinarily poised young actress, can switch in a flash from wounded kid to jaded know-it-all.
04/25/03
Top CriticLilya seeps into your bones, and it's not easy to shake off.
04/18/03
Why pay eight bucks to see this horrifying and sad film about the sort of girl you'd pass on the street without giving her a thought? Because, improbably, it says that life is worth living.
07/22/03
Worth every uncomfortable minute.
07/17/03
This movie may seem, by plain description, like putting your heart into a garlic press. But it's extraordinarily alive.
05/16/03
Socially revealing and artistically creative, both coldly realistic and infused with compassion for its heroine and her youth culture.
04/17/03
Lilya's struggle to make a life for herself is both heartbreaking and heart-stirring.
05/02/03
Top CriticStark and unblinking.
05/09/03
Here [Moodysson's] even more scarily adroit at mining the interior lives of his characters, paradoxically by painting such vivid, harsh external realities.
04/17/03
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