Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Lilya 4-Ever

Sweden d/Lukas Moodyson

This was a heartbreaking story...about as sad as anything I've ever seen on film. Lilya is abandoned by her mother. She's 16. This takes her through the next three months. Her story is about as grim as it gets...eventually she is tricked and sold into sexual slavery.

This was taken from a true-life case. Stories like this became common in the European West after the Soviet Union collapsed and countries like Estonia were left to struggle to create new economies. During the adjustment period there was some human wreckage. This film shows one.

Starkly realistic, well acted and directed. This'll be a hard one to forget.

8

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