Focus on Lukas Moodysson

A Hole in my Heart

1 hr. 38 min. | Drama | N/A

The film is set almost entirely in an anonymous highrise apartment, where Rickard uses DV camera to shoot pornfilms with his mate Geko and a young woman named Tess, who more or less voluntarily lets both men maltreat her. Rickard’s teenage son Eric hangs around in the room next door and gradually gets caught up in the tri’s increasingly uninhibited pursuits. Nausea and violence, intimate plastic surgery and other trash TV favourites all play the role. „A Hole in my Heart“ is a disturbing and boldly radical film whose treatment of sexuality, power and identity is closer to the work of Cindy Sherman or Matthew Barney than to conventional cinema. It is a controversial film.

Lukas Moodysson

Lukas Moodysson

Lukas Moodysson was born in southern Sweden in 1969. At the age of seventeen, he published a volume of poetry, and later wrote books about poetry and novel. He trained at the Institute for Film, radio, Television and Theatre at the University of Stockholm. „Show me Love“, Moodysson’s first feature film, was nominated for the European Film Prize. Moodysson continued his success with „Together“ and „Lilja 4-ever“, which premiered at the 2002 Venece Film Festival, in 2003 movie was showed in Scanorama.
Languages
Swedish
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Ett hål i mitt hjärta
Produced
2004: Sweden, Denmark

Film information

Director
Lukas Moodysson
Screenplay
Lukas Moodysson
Cinematography
Malin Fornander, Jesper Kurdlandsky, Lukas Moodysson, Karl Strandlind
Cast
Thorsten Flinck, Björn Almroth, Sanna Bråding, Goran Marjanovic
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