Lukas Moodysson

Now, from what I hear, the surgery scene pales in comparison to the guy-actually-vomiting-in-a-woman's-mouth scene... (I'm sorry I had to type that, but I am just reporting what I have heard)...

sure is good crack, though.

http://www.cinemaniacs.be/images/lilya.jpg http://www.vujer.com/material/filmer/lilja_4ever.jpg

I know, it's weird. Maybe they just shuddered at the thought of English speakers pronouncing the J as hard.

bbc4 announcers have been pronouncing it 'Moddy-son' rather than 'Moody-son' which kinda spoils things. i'll ask our swedish PA if she's not off ill again.

I see your point, but it wasn't their story. Some films present a narrative from numerous perspectives, some just focus on one character's subjective experience, and "Lilja 4-Ever" chose the latter path.

I wasn't being sarcastic!

(the one thing i did laugh at was the kid called Tet, just because of his name. not that i didn't enjoy the film.)

Well, a charcter has had a labial trim, so the film shows closeups of that and other disgusting surgical procedures at random points throughout the film. Don't repeat my mistake and buy popcorn.

Yes, well, so my story...chose to go see this at the Prince Chaz with my friends instead of getting into to the bowels of MPC (which I sorta wanted to do) to see a free test screening of The Descent (which I couldn't have cared less about). But as Moodysson got a good reception when we showed Together at the school, I figured it was worth a try. Didn't know anything about A Hole in My Heart really before going in.

So before all this, we're out doing some miscellaneous Super 8 shooting, and I'd been digging on going to this Eritrean place that I saw a review for this week. So we go out there and order this meal for two that is huge, but great. Needless to say, I'm fairly full for a bit - a lot of air from the bubbly bread...

Anyway, we go into town and along the way, my bud briefly mentions that Moodysson's films have been getting progressively darker, and that this should be fairly gritty and intense. But I've seen a shitload of films, many gritty and intense, so whatever. He gets some Haagen Daz from the shop around the corner from the theater, and we go in. We end up getting comp'ed bc a schoolmate is working there, which is nice. But when he hears that we want to see the film, he's like, "really? Are you sure you know what you're getting into?" Yeah, whatever, let us in. I figure the least I can do for the freebie is patronize the concessions, so I order a medium sweet popcorn and a small Coke.

BIG MISTAKE.

I really was fine with the shock tactics for the most part; I enjoyed the experimentalism of it, and I think I could see what was going on and clearly there was a point. I even jumped in my seat at several points, which I rarely have occasion to do even once within a film. But as it worked its way towards the ninth circle. Yes, having anything to eat was a big mistake. You could sorta tell what was coming along, so when the moment occurred, I did something I've never once had to do before in a film - I actually looked away. I'm fairly emetophobic, so I didn't want to take a chance of going over the edge - esp. what with all I had eaten. Anyway, I looked back a bit too soon and caught a good amount of the tail end of things. Luckily I made it through fine, but at that point, I think I just disconnected with the film.

I can see the merits of it, and just because something (finally) offended and shocked me utterly doesn't mean that I'm going to dismiss it outright, but I think it's going to be difficult for me to have anything positive to say in detail.

Honestly, maybe I would have been less overwhelmed if I had had spoilers. Which would have been a good thing.

i just watched 'together' & liked it a lot. reminded me of fanny and alexander a bit

mammoth looks fucking great:

my variety twitter feed just now popped up with a notification that mammoth has been reviewed. weird.

sorry for bad typos.

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i won't read that; reading brody seems about as useful (and good for my blood pressure) as reading armond white at this point.

i keep thinking that if i ever met brody i'd have to fight the urge to pull on his beard. i wonder if after he sees a movie it's filled with popcorn and spittle.

Woah..

***NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming to Blu-ray in January from Arrow Video

The Lukas Moodysson Collection

•FUCKING ÅMÅL-2K resto
•TOGETHER-4K resto
LILYA 4-EVER
•A HOLE IN MY HEART / CONTAINER
•MAMMOTH
•WE ARE THE BEST!#FilmTwitter #Bluray #ArrowVideo #Cinema #Film pic.twitter.com/4SjXNlU1Ut

— Dawn of The Discs (@dawnofthediscs) October 27, 2022

wow there is a sequel to Together set in 1999, playing at TIFF: https://tiff.net/events/together-99

I haven't kept up with Moodysson, but I loved the original Together

Yeah it was good