Lilya 4-Ever

A teenager abandoned by her family slips into a downward spiral of sex and degradation in this frank drama from Sweden. Lilya (Oksana Akinshina) is a 16-year-old girl growing up in poverty in the former Soviet Union. Lilya's mother (Lyubov Agapova) is moving to the United States with her new ...more

Although it appears on the surface to be a relentlessly grim story of sexual and spiritual degradation, the third feature from Swedish wunderkind Lukas Moodysson retains the gentle humor and unaffected humanity of his previous features, Show Me Love and Together. The Dickensian tale of an Eastern European teen left to rot in the decaying tenements of the former Soviet Union, Lilya 4-Ever mixes grimy hyperrealism with flamboyant flights of fancy and leavens its politically charged subtext with ...more