A Hole in My Heart
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A hole in my heart |
| Original title | Ett hål i mitt hjärta |
| Country of production |
Sweden Denmark |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | approx. 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK no youth approval |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lukas Moodysson |
| script | Lukas Moodysson |
| production | Lars Jonsson |
| camera |
Malin Fornander Jesper Kurlandsky Lukas Moodysson Karl Strandlind |
| cut | Michal Leszczylowski |
| occupation | |
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A Hole in My Heart is a Swedish feature film by Lukas Moodysson from 2004 . Using the means of experimental film , he describes how four people in a shared apartment sink deeper and deeper into a swamp of violence, sexual disinhibition and emotional isolation.
action
Rickard can only be called a loser. His wife is dead and his son Eric hates him. During the day he hangs out with his buddy Geko in their filthy apartment. They hang in front of the PC and gamble, talk nonsense, try to beat the time to their ears and shoot amateur porn with Tess. She is 21 years old and has been dreaming of making sex films since she was twelve. Recently she even had her labia shrink. While the three indulge in their sexual excesses in front of the camera, Eric sits in the darkened room and listens to noise music . In the realm of his thoughts he deals with God and the world, does nothing else and dedicates himself to his worm breeding.
This chaotic symbiosis of the flat-share apartment for four people is out of joint when one day the two men want to drive Tess with a motorcycle helmet, ski mask and baseball bat to a porn of the brutal kind. Tess leaves the apartment in a hurry, but the next day she returns, packed with a huge purchase of food and drink: what follows is the big bite ... So her escape attempt remains episode and none of the flatmates really appear in the Able to counteract the desolation of their life together.
reception
“What makes A Hole in my Heart a shocker [...] is the protagonists' emotional emptiness, the state of complete paralysis, the way in which they oscillate between boredom, outbursts of aggression and weepy self-pity. And their absolute inability to break out of this state. "
"The extremely brutal, shocking and disillusioning film describes as a four-person piece a social end point at which all social agreements and values have vanished into thin air and everyone believes that they only have to follow their own voice."
Commercially, A Hole in My Heart was less successful than Moodysson's previous films, but received overwhelming praise from domestic critics. The film and gender scholar Mariah Larsson also attributed this to the fact that the film was taking an anti-porn stance that was widespread in Sweden at the time . According to Larsson, Moodysson's films represent moral and ethical comments on capitalist western consumer societies: the director tries to force the viewer to gain political insight by means of shocking images so that “A Hole in My Heart” can be viewed as a propaganda film.
Web links
- A Hole in My Heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film review from dvdheimat.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Harald Ladstätter
- ↑ Film Service
- ↑ “Attempting to shock the spectator into a political realization, A Hole in My Heart could well be regarded as a propagandistic film if not for its essayistic construction, which undermines its potential for widespread popularity, but also calls into question some of its presumed political messages. ” (Mariah Larsson: 'Close Your Eyes And Tell Me What You See': Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson's Films. In: New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe. Edited by Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall. Edinburgh University Press 2011, p 142–153, cited here p. 150.)