A Hole in My Heart (2004)

A Hole in My Heart (2004)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Writer: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Thorsten Flinck, Björn Almroth, Sanna Bråding
In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.

Basically plotless film centring on an homemade porn production, we follow the director his handicapped son, the porn actress and a friend of the director who's doing the male sex scenes.

This film is sickening depraved boring and headache inducing at times, this isn't mainstream and you certainly arn't in Kansas any more. Even after all my revulsion and wanting to turn it off, there's something about Lukas Moodysson forth feature A Hole in My Heart I liked. Take for instance I loved the ending, when the porn actress is playing at being the lost mother of the son she says close your eyes, if you do like she says (as I did) and open them... you end up with the credits rolling in silence, Moodysson here proves himself very very clever. Like I said A Hole in My Heart is no easy journey, but there's more to this film than you will at first notice, you'll first see the sex & filth but deep down there's so much honesty within the film. From the characters talking about times they're lonely to losing loved ones, to the sons outburst that his dad was raped as a child by his grandfather. So many viewers won't appreciate the style and it takes cast iron determination to reach its end. But when those credits do roll, something inside will make you feel like you've been with them in that trashy flat while they've shot a porno and bared their souls, and from a movie what more can you ask.

(7½ out of 10)