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      2006 1h 12m Drama List
      Reviews 40% Audience Score 500+ Ratings As an obese man carries a slim Asian woman across trash dumps and through dilapidated buildings, off-screen voices deliver a jumble of thoughts and personalities. A blend of identity, spirituality, consumerism and pop culture sounds like crazy talk one minute and sanity the next. Read More Read Less

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      Leslie Felperin Variety [A] mesmerizing cinematic box of tricks. Apr 25, 2006 Full Review Kaleem Aftab The List Surprisingly manages to remain interesting for its short runtime. It's a difficult watch, but one that conveys a sense of alienation, the theme uniting all Moodysson's films, in a unique and disquieting fashion. Rated: 3/5 Nov 3, 2018 Full Review Jeremy Heilman MovieMartyr.com Rated: 3/4 Sep 2, 2006 Full Review Boyd van Hoeij european-films.net Moodysson definitely created something haunting; imperfect and nonsensical as it may be at times. Is it pretentious? You bet. Is that a bad thing? Not at all. Apr 25, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Opaque sequences of words opaquely placed on top of opaque sequences of visuals. The stream-of-consciousness monologue that runs non-stop through the entire film has a handful of poetic and, when imparting meaningful information about the character, even touching moments, and I guess it's jumbled for a reason, not to mention that Jena Malone does a consistently great job with it, however it mostly makes for an unappealing, difficult and, coupled with the redundant visuals, boring watch. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member This is mental postmodern mental torture. I can't believe I sat through this. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member If someone were to tell me this was the worst film they had ever seen I would'nt argue too much with them. I was pretty absorbed from begnning to end. It doesnt really go anywhere fascinating or do anyting suprising, but the mix of images and sounds does create something poetic and special. If Tarkovsky and Harmony Korine collaborated it would look like this. A strange mix of gender confusion, pop culture disgust and fascination, along a road of consumer emptiness and the need for spiritual fullfilment. My first Lukas Moodysson experience and I wasnt sure what to expect from the Swedish realist director who wiki describes as "an outspoken left wing socialist, feminist, and vegetarian and at the same time a profoundly spiritual Christian." This stream of consciousness movie where the only sound is from a young girls voice almost whispering while an overwieght man and a thin Asian women who seem to represent the same person (when one is not carrying the other on their back "Fando Y Lis" style) is not endearing, entertaining, or profound. I watched it all, and I felt like it was an honest look at the modern world, if a despairingly cliche one at times. If your curious it's on Youtube. I'm just not sure. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Poetic and beautiful. This is a movie that you can relax to and move into. Turn inside it and feel the fragile girl's voice touch your heart and clean your thoughts. Make you feel like you are her and she's you. Feel her pain as your pain, and your pain as her pain. That you longing togheter to end the pain. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A mesmerizing study of sexual identity, celebrity culture and media moulding. Perhaps a tad too long but a great experiment similar in style to avant garde film makers such as Kenneth Anger etc Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member This is by far the most boring film I've ever seen, or maybe I just didn't understand it. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis As an obese man carries a slim Asian woman across trash dumps and through dilapidated buildings, off-screen voices deliver a jumble of thoughts and personalities. A blend of identity, spirituality, consumerism and pop culture sounds like crazy talk one minute and sanity the next.
      Director
      Lukas Moodysson
      Producer
      Lars Jönsson
      Screenwriter
      Lukas Moodysson
      Production Co
      Memfis Film & Television [se]
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 12m
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