Lilya 4-ever
Drama • R • 2002 • 1 hr 49 min
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This grim tale of post-Soviet "survival" is almost pure trigger-warning content. A devastating performance.
The movie does a good job at immersing you into the story with the cold setting, very bleak movie, very real, I cried watching this.
Although it is a low-budget film, it has its own impact. A bitter story about rape and abuse of girls under 18 years old
Damn, that was intense and extremely sad.
You can only watch this movie once. It is the saddest drama i have ever seen mostly because of its realism.
A good addition to the “slow, bleak foreign film about underprivileged sadness” genre
A very intense movie, that is hard to watch. But so beautifully and emotionally done
Despite all the rape scenes, it think all adolescents should be forced to watch this, so they can see world is a filthy, dangerous place.
This truly shows how soviet culture still remains, a depressing film that yet speaks reality of what desperation and struggle takes you to
Haunting film. But a good reminder of how terrible our reality is... very depressing
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