Despite the repeated efforts to shock and depress the viewer, I found Lilya 4-ever to be astonishingly unengaging. It's ultimately a pointless exercise in "how much shit can one throw at a character" without ever delving into any sort of deeper narrative.

Depressing and bleak, but somehow not particularly hard to watch. While it lacks a little bit in depth it makes up for it with a harsh style that contrasts squalor with glitz.

Depressing, if a little too predictable.

Heartbreaking. Just keeps on kicking you and kicking you. May be predictable, but I think that helps us as we watch Lilya fall into trap after trap and can't stop her.

A very sad/tragic story about shattered dreams and the fate of the young girls who are the victims of trafficking.

A horrendously depressing portrayal of human trafficking that would be exploitative if it were not so true to reality. Throw out thoughts about cinematography, mise-en-scene, sound design and aesthetics, this film bears a daring and important idelogical message, foregrounding a deviant social problem that must be resolved, and that trumps all other aspects of cinema. (That being said, this is still a finely executed film with some great touches [zoom] and some not so great ones [slow motion].)

It looks very realistic and the actors are totally convincing but the "dream sequences" are terrible and really devalue the rest of the movie.

An unhappy Russian girl moves to Sweden, where the job she was promised turns out to be a lie, and she is forced into sex trafficking. And the young boy who was her only true friend ODs after she leaves. Sunny stuff. It's not bad, though; Oksana Akinshina is quite good as the tragic Lilya, and Artyom Bogucharsky quite likable as her tragic friend. Moodysson's direction is solid, imbuing the film with an effective air of helplessness. It's just not quite incisive enough to be really memorable.

beyaz kadin ticareti, orospu, genc kiz, terk eden anne, tecavüz (annesi amerikaya gidince rusya'da bir basina kalan bir genc kizin ayakta durma mücadelesini anlatiyor. kiz hayat kadini olacak, daha sonra güvendigi genc onu isvec'e yollayacak. orada bir cetenin eline düsen kiz. hayatini bir fahise olarak sürdürecek. finalde kiz intehar eder. bu arada ona arkadaslik eden volodjo'da kizin isvec'e gitmesiyle intehar eder. biraz agir ama fena degil.) dram.

Good

A powerful, unflinching depiction of poverty and prostitution. Akinshina delivers a strong performance and Moodysson's naturalistic style fits the material perfectly. Although, for me, it lacks the emotional gut punch that would have made it excellent and some of the religious stuff is vexing, this is still a very forceful picture.