Akinshina brings to mind the extraordinary work of Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver.
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04/29/03
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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
Lilya 4-Ever gives us a glorious, heart-wrenching debut performance in the lead, as auspicious as any in the history of cinema.
08/27/06
Moodysson's compassion is undeniable, and his direction has a snap and vigor...
05/09/03
One of the least happy films I have seen in a while, but also one of the most memorable and moving.
04/20/03
Top CriticAbsorbing without being particularly illuminating.
11/11/03
This compelling and disturbing Swedish film directed by Lukas Moodysson charts the terrors of an abandoned Russian teenager who finds herself an unwilling victim in the global sex trade.
04/17/03
After your heart has been beaten, bludgeoned, anally raped and stomped upon, there's still another hour left to go...
06/04/03
[Moodysson] dives into the soul of a 16-year-old Estonian girl and tears you apart.
07/25/03
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 CriticA bleak, blistering, beautiful treasure of a film that presents wasted life in all its horrific vividness.
04/15/03
It's Moodysson's dark sense of humour to make [Lilya's] heaven the hell of merely poverty and insurmountable ennui.
06/25/03
Lukas Moodysson brings us yet another amazingly realistic and engaging drama about society punctuated with both humor and grittiness.
01/16/03
Worth every uncomfortable minute.
07/17/03
Top CriticThis isn't an easy film -- only a memorable one.
04/17/03
Top CriticMoodysson has an impressive ability to show the world from the perspective of children, and to elicit naturalistic performances from his youthful actors.
03/31/03
It tells a heartbreaking story, one of those tales that need to be told and about which only pain can be felt.
06/20/03
Top CriticI 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 responsible for.
05/09/03
Top CriticThis movie may seem, by plain description, like putting your heart into a garlic press. But it's extraordinarily alive.
05/16/03
Akinshina and Bogucharskij are remarkable together, and Moodysson once again demonstrates a sophisticated visual skill matched only by his innate understanding of the adolescent heart.
04/17/03
Manipulative and reductive though it may be, it's a film that clearly takes place in the real world.
05/07/03
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