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LILYA 4-EVER - A FILM BY LUKAS MOODYSSON THE 59 MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE D¡¦ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA DI VENEZIA SYNOPSIS 16 year-old Lilya lives in a poor and dreary suburb somewhere in the former Soviet Union. She dreams of a better life. Her mother has moved to the States with a new man and Lilya is waiting to be sent for. When no letters or money arrive from her mother, it becomes obvious that Lilya has been abandoned. She's forced to move into a tiny, run-down flat with no electricity or heating. Heartbroken and without money, Lilya's situation becomes desperate. Her only friend is the 11 year-old boy Volodya, who sometimes is allowed to sleep on her sofa. They hang around together and fantasize to make life a little easier. One day, hope arrives when Lilya falls in love with Andrei. He asks her to follow him to Sweden to start a new life. Little Volodya is jealous and suspicious - but Lilya packs her things. Suddenly she¡¦s sitting on a plane bound for Sweden not knowing what will happen next. DIRECTOR¡¦S COMMENT It was meant to be a film about God's benevolence, but reality reared its head and it became something else. It turned into a film about two children, Lilya and Volodya, who live in a country that was once part of the mighty Soviet empire and which now lies in ruins. It turned into a film about the longing to be elsewhere, about leaving everything behind, about being left behind alone, about rich people who think everything can be bought, about poor people who are forced to sell everything they have (beside their heart), about things that happen far away and things that happen on the street where I live, about cough syrup and glue, about basketball, about Britney Spears, about carving your name into a bench so that everyone can see you exist, about being spat at, about giving up, about death, about a friendship that never ends, about a candle that never burns out. And perhaps it's a little bit about God's benevolence as well - despite the fact that he never answers when Lilya prays to Him. LUKAS MOODYSSON BIOGRAPHY Lukas Moodysson was born in 1969 in the south of Sweden. Long before trying his hand at filmmaking he published a collection of poetry when he was just 17, which was followed by several books of poetry and a novel. He graduated from Dramatiska Institutet, where he made a number of short films, before he started working with Memfis Film. The short film Talk was followed in 1998 by his feature debut Fucking Amal (also known as Show me love). A major hit with audiences and critics alike and praised by filmmaking legend Ingmar Bergman - Moodysson was soon considered the great new hope of the Swedish film industry. Fucking Amal went on to worldwide distribution and picked up several awards and nominations, including four Swedish Film Awards and a nomination as Best European Film of the Year by the European Film Academy. Lukas Moodysson's next film, Together (Tillsammans), more than lived up to his debut and became an even bigger hit. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2000, and was a bona-fide box-office hit across the world. It established Moodysson on the international filmmaking scene, both commercially and artistically. Together was featured on several major US and UK newspapers' "film-of-the-year" lists in 2001. In 2000 Lukas Moodysson was also co-writer of the award-winning Swedish Tvseries The New Country, (directed by Geir Hansteen-Jorgensen). Lukas Moodysson lives in Malmo with his wife and two sons. Lilya 4-ever is his third feature film. FILMOGRAPHY
Showdown in the Underworld (short) 1995 INTERVIEW: LUKAS MOODYSSON Sweden's highly respected and influential young filmmaker, Lukas Moodysson, has in his two films, Fucking Amal and Together, breached the difficult gap between art and commerce. He has been embraced by audiences and critics across the world, and Sweden's filmmaking legend Ingmar Bergman labelled his debut "A young master's first masterpiece". This has, however, not kept Moodysson from pushing himself ever since. He takes his audience on a completely different voyage in Lilya 4-ever - away from the political and personal problems of 70s Sweden to the harsh reality of the former Soviet Union in the present. "It is very hard to say exactly when or how the idea came to me," he says. "After Together I just knew I wanted to go deeper in my next film. The moments in your life, when you get these absolutely clear ideas, are very hard to describe. I know when it happened, I know what kind of music I was listening to, but I'll keep that to myself. However, I don't know if it had been stored in my mind for a long time before then." Lilya is a 16 year-old girl living in an unnamed city in the former Soviet Union, and like many of her peers (and the girls in Fucking Amal), her greatest dream is to get away from there. Her mother finds a man, who promises to take them to the US, but once there the mother never sends for her daughter and Lilya is left to take care of herself and her only friend, the younger boy Volodya. "Once I had the idea for the story, I knew the whole universe in it. It encompassed the personal tragedy - Lilya's - and a bygger political reality. Then it felt like the film was already there. I did some research, but the story really came to me quite finished." While producer Lars Jonsson began to finance the $3m drama, Moodysson went through extensive casting, and saw close to 1000 children for the two main parts in the film. Over a period of 4 months, the crew visited Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, before finally deciding on Russians Oksana Akinshina (Lilya) and Artiom Bogucharskij (Volodya). "I had travelled very little in those countries before, and initially I hadn't decided that the place would be unnamed, but I knew it had to be a raped society - a collapsed empire." A run-down housing complex, where the main characters Lilya and Volodya lives, was found outside Tallinn (Estonia) in the Russian-speaking district Paldiski, close to an abandoned ex-Soviet submarine base. "That place used to be a centre of power, but today it is empty," says Moodysson. "However, I didn't want anyone to say that one specific country was to blame for that situation. Though the story centres on the characters, the society around them is very important too. It could have taken place in Mexico, because it is about the major gap between the rich and the poor people as well as countries and how simple it is for wealthy nations to exploit poor ones". "We live in a culture, where you can buy anything. You can buy people, their labour or their intestines - a kidney from India or Turkey - TV-shows like Ricki Lake is also a trade of lives. My film is about that world. I'm not blaming the poor countries, but the rich ones who exploit them. In today's globalized world Swedish companies can move their factories to poorer countries, and pay close to nothing for the labour. This causes even further desperation for those, who don't have anything". "It is not surprising that so many (like Lilya) dream of getting away from there. In Moldavia for example, the poorest country in Europe, I believe some 99% of the young people there don't believe in a future in their own country. They all want to leave. They also have a catastrophic high percentage of the women, who have sold sex. That is the terrible reality, and not the fault of Moldavia. Both communistic and a capitalistig rape. What you make film about is a political choice, so in that sense my film is a political statement." Plot, characters and dialogue are the key in Lukas Moodysson's films. He is a writer directing his own stories, and in Fucking Amal and Together his realistic and sharp dialogue has been a standout. But in Lilya 4-ever, all the dialogue is in Russian! "You have to challenge yourself - it is like football. You play better if your opponent is the champion." But how does he handle working with actors, he doesn't share a language with? "You are very careful in your casting and choose very good actors. Once I have them, I must have great faith in them, and they in me. From then on it is very basic. You build a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere for the whole shoot, not just for the kids. It means they dare to make mistakes and try things, without the restrain of nerves. It is essential. From then on I guess it is intuition, and I think I direct less than people might think. Of course I control everything, but I don't go changing small details all the time. When you listen, you know if it is right or not. I had interpreters as well, and one of them was Alexandra Dahlstrom (the young actress playing Elin in Fucking Amal). It is very important to me, that I have people I know around me, and that is why I use the same cinematographer and assistant director, as well as editor and producer." Producer Lars Jonsson has produced all of Moodysson's films, and has become so important to him, that he can't envision making a film without him. "There are people you are lucky enough to meet, who you then allow to have very big influence on your life. Once you do that, it can be really hard, because then you have to trust their opinion even if they are contrary to your own. Lars is one of the few I trust to that extent. We spar well together. He gives me total control, which means he can be that much harder in criticism. That is fantastic, it gives me absolute freedom, but at the same time I have his honesty, which is also very important to me. He gives me a lot of creative input." It is no secret that Moodysson after the success of Together has been offered a number of projects in the US, but so far he hasn't accepted. "I never had an ambition of moving there, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't at one point make a film in the US. There're plenty of very interesting topics to deal with there. I would like to make a film in English, but the offers haven't been interesting. Since I love film, it is tragic the biggest filmmaking country in the world doesn't deal in film anymore, but only money. They see themselves as the centre of the world, but that isn't so. They have this misconception that all filmmakers have a dream of coming to Hollywood, as if that was a goal in itself. It is very arrogant. However, if I did go there, I would need to keep my key people around me. I'm all for unions, but if working in the US meant I can't use them, as a European filmmaker I might be unwilling to work there." Looking back at Moodysson's now three feature films, it becomes obvious, that certain elements are repeated throughout. Teenagers are always the focal point, as the director seems to prefer to see the world through their eyes. "I believe that you are who you used to be. Everyone has been a child and had a child's view of the world. They are the least powerful, the lowest in the hierarchy, and I can identify with them and their perspective. There are elements from my previous films, which are repeated or continued in this one. I don't really see the films as separate, but part of a process since I write them and develop along with them. One film blends into the next, as there are issues you can't finish in just one film." Places and situations are recurring, like a bridge over a freeway in Lilya 4-ever which was also in a key scene in Fucking Amal. "Yes, the bridge has a certain meaning to me, but it is hard to explain why. I know, however, it will come back in my next film. There are several aspects to it, but one is no doubt that I grew up close to one. At night we would sneak out and meet on it." Music is another element, which has always played a central part in Lukas Moodysson's films. "It is hard to say why something works. My editor and I listen to a lot of music, and some things just work. It is almost metaphysical, you can experience that a scene turns out to be exactly the length of the track that you later find fits it perfectly. All the music I choose tells us something about our time. Also the physical space these people live in - even the classical music, which carries the feelings and the humanity in the scenes. It fascinates me how music can lift everything to a higher level - a universal level. Though I am so extremely fond of music, it is dangerous to have a clear-cut idea of which music you want in a particular scene, because everything else then will seem like a compromise. For this film I was inspired by the music that was popular in the places, where we shot it. Rammstein were one of those. You would see graffiti with their name and bands like Prodigy. It says something about the kind of energy, power and destructiveness you might find there - for both good and bad." A picture of an angel and a child also plays a central part in Lilya 4-ever. "Yes, it is hard to talk about, but it is really one of the key issues in the film. If there was one thing that got me started on this film that would be it. I have this recurring thought that haunts me, when I can't sleep. It is about all the people in the world, who are being tortured. So I can't help asking the concrete question, whether there is any hope for people living in hell. It isn't a theoretical question to me, but an existential one. That is what I try to explain in the film. I believe it is so. There is someone watching over us. That might not help us, but the hope is all we have. To survive in this world, we need it." Though highly eloquent in both writing, reality and on celluloid, Moodysson, who also published several collections of poetry and a novel, strongly believes that his films as art speak for themselves. "When I have made a film it expresses exactly what I think and believe, there's nothing else. There are no slogans, posters or interviews which can express that better. Everything else is a compromise as opposed to the film - the work of art - so it is really frustrating to have journalists asking me: 'what is your film about?'" Jacob Neiiendam, Screen International ACTORS' BIOGRAPHIES OKSANA AKINSHINA as Lilya Oksana was born in St Petersburg in 1987. She is studying at high school. Oksana played the lead role in Sisters (directed by Sergei Bodrov Jr), which was a great success in Russian cinemas in 2001. The film was selected for the Venice Film Festival and was distributed in a number of countries. In 2001 she also worked on the film In Movement as well as the TV series, Happy New Year. Oksana enjoyed working with Lukas even if she felt that Lilya's character was sometimes hard to play. "Lukas helped and gave advice and together we found solutions to the problems". ARTIOM BOGUCHARSKIJ as Volodya Artiom was born in Moscow in 1989. He is currently at music school and besides being a chorister he plays several instruments such as the clarinet and the piano. For the past few years he has also been studying with the Russian Theatre Academy's school. Together with his sister he dances in the folk dance group, "The Red Star". Lilya 4-ever is Artiom's first film role, but the work has given him a taste for more. Artiom is currently playing a larger role in a Russian TV series. Artiom says he really liked the studio at Trollhattan, Lukas Moodysson as a director, and everyone in the crew. On the other hand, he didn't appreciate the cold, dirt, damp and the freezing clothes. He says about Lukas, "He has the same humour as a Russian". PAVEL PONOMAREV as Andrei Pavel was born in St Petersburg in 1980. A year later the family moved to Estonia. He's studying pop and jazz singing since 1998 at Georg Ot's Music School in Tallinn. He has participated in Les Misˆmrables and Miss Saigon. Pavel is also the singer and guitarist with the rockabilly group, "Wild Cut". ELINA BENENSON as Natasha Elina was born in Tallinn in 1986. She is currently at high school in Tallinn and holds drawing/painting and languages among her interests. Elina is with the school theatre. LJUBOV AGAPOVA as Lilya's mother Ljubov was born in Russia in 1956. She finishen her studies at the Far-East Institute of Art in 1977. She has been working with the Russian Theatre in Tallinn since 1987. LILIA SHINKAREVA as Aunt Anna Born in 1948. Liliya graduated from the Art Institute in Vladivostok. She has been working with the Russian Theatre in Tallinn since 1971. TOMAS NEUMANN as Witek Born in 1951. Graduated from the State Acting Academy in Warsaw in 1974. He worked as an actor at the Rozmaitosci Theatre in Warsaw from 1974 - 1975 as well as appearing in a number of film productions. Tomas emigrated to Sweden in 1975 where he primariely works as a drama teacher. He currently runs his own school - Stockholm's Elementary Theatre School. Tomas has also worked as an actor at Juri Lederman's Theatre Studio.
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