Having seen (and loved) both Lilya 4-Ever and Together in the same week, I decided to continue trawling through Lukas Moodysson's filmography with his latest offering, A Hole In My Heart. If I'm being completely honest, I've never been more disappointed by a film as much as this. It's not hard to see what Moodysson was trying here - set up a chaotic atmosphere with only a handful of characters, then turn things around by unveiling the raw emotion exhibited by these human beings - all on a DV camera. It was done so much better in Miike Takashi's Visitor Q. A Hole In My Heart just smacks of uncomfortable pretension. Had this been Moodysson's first film, I might have been a touch more lenient. However, this is the man who directed Lilya 4-Ever, one of the most disturbingly candid films available, and to go from that to this is just vexing.
Review of A Hole in My Heart
