[ZERO]
+ 3rd Worst Movie of the Decade
+ Worst Movie of the Year
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| A young woman seems to have passed out in some cereal or her own vomit on this poster for Lukas Moodysson's A Hole in My Heart |
4 people are in a small, ugly apartment; 3 of them are making a porno flick. The fourth is an insufferably depressed emo-son of one of the pornographers.
A Hole in My Heart is a complete botch by Swedish master writer-director Lukas Moodysson (Lilya 4-Ever (2002)). It is a bit as if a white racist had made a film about blacks, this simply being the deeply prejudiced, one-sided and unwatchable pornography narrative conjured up by a pornography-hater. Few if any good films have ever sprung from hate, and A Hole in My Heart sure isn't one to change that.
The mix of nonsense is dreadfully related to us in off-putting digital photography. The least unsympathetic of the four is the exceedingly drab son, (played by Björn Almroth, who hasn't appeared in anything before or since), and this may constitute the movie's primary sin: It is unbearably dull throughout, as well as pretentious in the extreme.
I value some of Moodysson's other films tremendously, but I don't hesitate in calling A Hole in My Heart a mountain of plot-deprived bull. Trash.
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= Unknown (but likely a mega-flop)
[A Hole in My Heart premiered 10 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 98 minutes. Moodysson initially intended to shoot the film in the US and ask Christina Aguilera and Sylvester Stallone to star in it, but realized he couldn't do it. It was shot in 4 weeks in Trollhättan, Sweden in August 2003. At least one of the cast members, Thorsten Flinck, reportedly took morphine during shooting to cope with the troubling work.The film was released with a 'disturbing images'-warning on its posters in Sweden, which the censors there hadn't done since Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò (1976). It was shown in a few theaters, and 16,425 paid admission there in its first two weeks. In Denmark, who acted as co-producing country behind the film, just 1,402 paid admission to see it. The film was released in 1 theater in North America, where it played for two weeks at #112 and #131 and grossed 3,784 $. If the budget was a modest 5 mil. SEK (approximately 0.56 mil. $), the film looks like a mega-flop theatrically. It was, incredibly, nominated for the European Film Award and the Nordic Council Film Prize. A Hole in My Heart is rotten at 41 % with a 4 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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