A shattering portrayal of sassy mischevious Lilya's wrenching fight for survival after she is abandoned by her mother. Left to fend for herself she wards off the daily struggle she faces by immersing herself in a friendship with the young Volodya. With him she is momentarily able to live the carefree life of a child as the adult horrors of her poverty-strewn country close in around her....
Set in a 1970s commune, the story blends the hypocrisy of the hippie movement with a sense of idealsism and solidarity.
All four of audacious award winning director Lukas Moodysson's feature films are collected on this DVD box set for the first time. Show Me Love (1998): Both Elin and Agnes yearn for more than their tiny town of Amal can offer. Elin is popular sexy but disaffected. Only recently moved Agnes is the class nerd with few friends. To make matters worse Agnes' outsider status stems from student chinese whispers claiming she's a lesbian. What's worse still is those whispers are t
Lukas Moodysson's latest film focuses on Rickard and his painfully shy son Eric who spends most of his days holed up in his room listening to abrasive industrial music presumably in an attempt to drown out what's going on in the rest of the apartment... His father an amateur pornographer is shooting his latest film and as he and his stars get drunk and more impressed with themselves they lose what little inhibitions they had and their behaviour grows more and more disturbing.
Poetic experimental and different Container follows a reflective path into the life of an overweight Swedish man and the slim Asian woman who may be the embodiment of his inner girl...
Gael Garca Bernal (Amores Perros; Babe) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain; Shutter Island) star as Leo and Ellen a successful affluent New York couple who on the surface appear to have it all a beautiful bright daughter; great apartment; fulfilling careers and are still deeply in love. But behind this faade something more troubling is happening Ellen is a devoted emergency surgeon but is beginning to question her priorities when her daughter chooses to spend more time with her Filipino nanny Gloria. In turn Gloria is desperate to be reunited with her two sons back in the Phillipines. It will take a business trip to Thailand to make all the characters look at their own lives and their place in a global landscape. Lukas Moodysson deftly weaves small intimate moments shared between couples and families alongside posing bigger questions about global wealth and greed to build up a portrait of contemporary society. One of the world's most visionary directors Moodysson is best known for his films Together and Lilya-4-Ever. Mammoth is his first English language feature.
Together: 1975 Sweden. Tired of her abusive husband Elisabeth packs her bags and moves with her children to her brother's commune 'Together'. As a fairly ordinary housewife from the suburbs the commune's freewheeling attitudes towards sex and politics will open Elisabeth's eyes and change her family's life forever. Together is a film about people trying to live together. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It's about love and divorce and happiness and unhappiness and children and adults and ABBA and sex and football. (Dir. Lukas Moodysson Swedish 2000) Dear Wendy: One shot is all it takes..... Dick a loner living in a poor US mining town happens upon a small antique handgun and finds himself strangely drawn to it. He convinces other young outcasts to join him in a secret club he calls 'The Dandies'. It's a club based on the conflicting ideals of pacifism and guns; with the most important rule: 'never draw your weapon'. But they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken... (Dir. Thomas Vinterberg 2005) Vodka Lemon: In the tiny Kurdish village of Caucasus lives widowed army veteran Hamo. A few precious comforts - an old armoire an archaic television set his old uniform and a seven dollar monthly pension - keep him company until some long-awaited correspondence (and more pressingly money) reaches his remote village from his son who has begun a new life in Paris. Each day Hamo wakes to the rabble of eccentric villagers before making the long bus journey through the snow to an isolated cemetary and the grave of his beloved wife. Each day he brushes the fresh snow from her grave. Each day he spies on Nina an attractive widow taking a few contemplative hours out from her lowly job on a roadside lemon vodka stall. With the sporadic letters from his son yielding little in the way of comfort or money Hamo's thoughts turn to his burgeoning friendship with the beguiling Nina on the silent empty bus journey from the village to the cemetary and back... The multi-award winning 'Vodka Lemon' a surreal love story in the style of independent icons Aki Kaurismaki and Emir Kustrica is a captivating tale of quiet simple pleasures and the effect they have on the delightful town and its vibrant inhabitants. Official selection of the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival and winner of the San Marco prize at the 2004 Venice International Film Festival. (Dir. Hiner Saleem 2003)
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