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A Hole in My Heart (2005)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:7

Rotten:10

Average Rating:4/10

Rated: 18

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:14-01-2005

Synopsis: Filmed in secrecy with a small crew over seventeen days, Lukas Moodysson's fourth feature is set in a nightmarish apartment in suburban Sweden, where middle-aged Rickard (Thorsten Flinck), is... Filmed in secrecy with a small crew over seventeen days, Lukas Moodysson's fourth feature is set in a nightmarish apartment in suburban Sweden, where middle-aged Rickard (Thorsten Flinck), is making a porn film with his brutish friend, Geko (Goran Marjanovic), and a troubled young woman, Tess (Sanna Brading). Meanwhile, Rickard's sensitive teenage son, Eric (Bjorn Almroth), stays in his room, avoiding the increasingly disturbing proceedings by listening to loud industrial music and tending to his pet earthworms. Over the next few days, Rickard and his partners will take drugs, film their brutal couplings, and play dangerous power games, revealing their individual psychological wounds along the way. In sharp contrast to his lighthearted, tolerant earlier works, SHOW ME LOVE (1998) and TOGETHER (2001), Lukas Moodysson plumbs depths in HOLE IN MY HEART. This film will fail to disturb only the most unflappable moviegoer. With a series of disturbing close-ups, night-vision confessionals, and surgical footage--intercut with with bursts of earsplitting industrial noise--the result is undeniably confrontational. But beneath the ugly surface, the bravest and most open-minded moviegoers will see that Moodysson is making very valid statements about family, machismo, reality television, the mainstreaming of pornography that are in perfect synch with the humanism of his previous films. This film screened at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. [More]

Starring: Thorsten Flinck, Bjorn Almroth, Sanna Brading, Goran Marjanovic

Starring: Thorsten Flinck, Bjorn Almroth, Sanna Brading, Goran Marjanovic

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Director: Lukas Moodysson
Screenwriter: Lukas Moodysson
Producer: Lars Jonsson
Studio: Newmarket Films

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Sends your brain whirring as well as your stomach churning -- quite a feat.

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01/26/05
Nev Pierce
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12/06/05
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The question is: do we need to be hauled through scene after scene of drab, dehumanized behavior so that we may see, or at least hear, humanity restored at the end?

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05/21/05
Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane
New Yorker

Moodysson comes on like de Sade crossed with Godard, yet by locking us outside of his characters, he fails to make them even contemptuously compelling.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
04/13/05
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

An experimental, transgressive work that pretty much fails on every level.

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04/11/05
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Moodysson doesn’t use this borrowed aesthetic to study what’s on his plate; he’s just out to cause a scene.

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04/09/05
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

The film is yet another proof of Moodysson's fearlessness and his willingness to push forward and break through the boundaries of convention.

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04/08/05
Gunnar Rehlin
Gunnar Rehlin
Variety
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It's harrowing to watch just how far these four actors are willing to go to bring Moodysson's vision to life, and their dedication commands respect, even as it dares you to keep your eyes on the screen.

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04/08/05
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Will disgust many (probably most) viewers as it cements Moodysson's reputation as one of today's most daring filmmakers.

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04/08/05
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

The degradation inflicted on the characters in Moodyson’s A Hole in My Heart is also inflicted on the viewers... an excruciating and appalling experience.

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04/08/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

It's a mystery what the Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson thought he was up to in A Hole in My Heart, a movie teeming with ugly images and grotesque behavior.

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04/07/05
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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I can't imagine a worst film being released this year.

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04/07/05
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Antic, if not funny.

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04/05/05
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice

Moodysson doesn't seem to realize the difference between a film that's disturbing yet provocative, and a film that's just amateurish and gross.

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01/30/05
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

a nihilistic barrage of sound and image that belongs somewhere between a Lars Von Trier Dogme film and the early work of Gregg Araki.

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01/30/05
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

A cinematic challenge that eats slowly at the soul but never insults the audience or its characters.

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01/30/05
Mariko McDonald
Mariko McDonald
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