Some movie reviews

Okay,I will try to do some movie reviews.On the list:"Lilya 4-ever"-a film by Swedish director  Lukas Moodysson and "The Countess"-a film by a great director Julie Deply.

First up is "Lilya 4-ever".The movie is about a 16 year old Russian girl who gets abandoned from her mother and is left on her own.Lilya is being kicked-out of her apartment by her aunt and goes to live in a very bad,small apartment.Soon she runs out of money,she can't buy food and she has no electricity or heat in her home.After she sees her friend trading sex for money,she starts doing that as well as she has no other choice to get money.And this is where the horror starts for her.
The film shows the really "grey" side of Russia,the poor neighborhoods,the prostitution and the actual human trafficking with the wealthy countries.It's a very depressing movie,low budget but it's an excellent movie.I liked it mainly because of that sense.It's worth watching.I can actually see my country in the film.Lot of the pictures reminded me of Skopje.So definitely watch it.

Next is "The countess".This is also a great movie.If you just think deeply into the story and the movie itself you'll see that it is not a historical movie but a psychological thriller.It goes deeply in the human thinking and how the greed can completely destroy our sanity.And of course it tells the story of the famous Hungarian Countess Erzsebet Bathory
So Countess Bathory was a Hungarian Countess who was at the time one of the most powerful and wealthy woman in Hungary and that whole Central Europe area.As I'm guessing we all know she was accused of murdering hundreds of young women. Allegedly she murdered them by draining their blood and later using them to take baths or whatever so she could stay young.But they found out what she did and  she went on trial where she was sentenced to be walled in her bedroom forever.That's the main thing.But the thing what you probably didn't know and what this movie tells is the fact that the Countess had an affair with a young nobleman and when he was married to another woman,she thought he didn't like her because she looked old(she was 39 he was 21).So that's why she kinda lost it.

Anyway,both films are European and they are great.So I recommend them.They made my weekend. ^^ Enjoy.