Lilya 4-Ever

Name: Lilya 4-Ever
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: April 18, 2003
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Artyom Bogucharsky, Oksana Akinshina, Pavel Ponomaryov

2003

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Movie Details & Credits

Newmarket Films | Release Date: April 18, 2003 | R

Starring: Artyom Bogucharsky, Oksana Akinshina, Pavel Ponomaryov

Summary: Set in contemporary Russia, this film recounts 13-year-old Lilya's struggle to survive the grim streets.

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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James Berardinelli

Light entertainment, this is not. Unforgettable and challenging cinema, it is. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

It's almost too devastating for words, yet never less than compelling and heartbreakingly affecting. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The most remarkable achievement of the film is its presentation of Lilya's story as both an archetypal case study and a personal drama whose spunky central character you come to care about so deeply that you want to cry out a warning at each step toward her ruination. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

If you're tired of false holiday cheer, Lilya 4-Ever will provide a corrective to the spiritual eggnog force-fed to us all season. The climax takes place during Christmas, though one that would make Tiny Tim grateful for his crutch and cold chimney corner. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The movie, written and directed by Lukas Moodysson, has the directness and clarity of a documentary, but allows itself touches of tenderness and grief. Read full review

Steven Rea

Terrific filmmaking, but it's hard to leave Moodysson's picture without feeling much of anything except hopelessness. Utterly. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The result is grimly "effective," but it made me long for Hollywood junk. Read full review

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DaveB.

May 7, 2003

Pity you made big mistake.Its not the streets of Moscow!!!!! i believe its Estonia.