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07/19/03
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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
A wrenching feel-bad movie graced by a luminous central performance.
06/27/03
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
[Moodysson] dives into the soul of a 16-year-old Estonian girl and tears you apart.
07/25/03
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08/09/03
Scrupulously realistic but it's also unendingly, tediously grim, despite Moodyson's few ham-handed fantasy sequences which fail to lighten the movie's tone.
03/30/03
Manipulative and reductive though it may be, it's a film that clearly takes place in the real world.
05/07/03
You'll see superb acting by two teens.
11/14/03
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 responsible for.
05/09/03
Top CriticBy the end of the film, our hearts will burn and break for Lilya.
05/08/03
Top CriticSocially revealing and artistically creative, both coldly realistic and infused with compassion for its heroine and her youth culture.
04/17/03
Akinshina brings to mind the extraordinary work of Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver.
04/29/03
Has a Greek-tragic bleakness that rivets audience attention.
04/20/03
A bleak, blistering, beautiful treasure of a film that presents wasted life in all its horrific vividness.
04/15/03
Absorbing without being particularly illuminating.
11/11/03
Moodysson has created a rare work of art -- one with an intensity that evokes physical as well as emotional pain, and overwhelming compassion, too.
04/23/03
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 CriticA rather unsettling mix of light and dark, which robs it of power and causes it to become muddled.
06/13/03
It's something that just might stick with you 4-Ever.
04/18/03
... a fantastic movie.
05/27/03
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