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Lukas Moodysson

Highest Rated: 97% We Are the Best! (2013)

Lowest Rated: 44% A Hole in My Heart (2004)

Birthday: Jan 17, 1969

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Birthplace: Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden

Lukas Moodysson was a critically-acclaimed director from Sweden. His sensitive, experimental films won him international respect and popular success in his home country. Moodysson was born on January 17, 1969 and grew up a self-proclaimed loner in Åkarp, Skåne County, Sweden. He began writing at a young age, and he had five poetry collections and a novel to his name by the time he was 23. He decided to switch to film to gain a wider audience, studying at what was then Sweden's only film school. He catapulted into the public eye with the hugely successful and provocatively titled "F*cking Åmål" (1998), a story about two girls falling in love in a small town. The-coming-of-age film was notably accompanied by a catchy pop soundtrack; its English title "Show Me Love" came from the Robyn song that plays at the end. The film met with great success, both critically and with the people of Sweden. Moodysson went on to release "Together" (2000), a film set in 1970s Stockholm, and the much darker "Lilya 4-ever" (2002) about an ill-fated girl's life in the former Soviet Union. After these highly successful films, Moodysson took a far more experimental turn with "A Hole In My Heart" (2004), which featured harsh screeching noises accompanying disturbing images of surgery and a barely there narrative, and "Container" (2006), with a stream of consciousness narrative accompanying seemingly unrelated imagery. These change of pace films received mostly negative reviews, and he returned to more conventional films in the years after. In 2013, he released "We Are The Best!" a 1980s-set film about a young female punk band, based on his wife Coco's comic book. The film met with critical success internationally.

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Highest rated movies

97% 77% We Are the Best!
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91% 86% Show Me Love
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90% 89% Together
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84% 91% Lilya 4-Ever
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71% 20% Together 99
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56% 75% Jalla! Jalla!
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45% 63% Mammoth
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44% 36% A Hole in My Heart
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40% Container
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86% The New Country
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
71% 20% Together 99 Director,
Writer,
Screenwriter
- 2023
97% 77% We Are the Best! Director,
Screenwriter
$180.2K 2013
45% 63% Mammoth Director,
Screenwriter
$8.5K 2009
No Score Yet 40% Container Director,
Writer,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 2006
44% 36% A Hole in My Heart Director,
Writer,
Cinematographer,
Casting
$3.3K 2004
84% 91% Lilya 4-Ever Director,
Writer
$181.7K 2002
90% 89% Together Director,
Writer
$339 2000
No Score Yet 86% The New Country Writer - 2000
56% 75% Jalla! Jalla! Executive Producer - 2000
91% 86% Show Me Love Director,
Writer
$220.0K 1998