Lukas Moodysson’s sensationalist A Hole in My Heart occurs principally within the confines of a rather cramped and undecorated apartment unit. The blinds are always shut, and the lights are always on. For the larger part of the film’s duration, four people are inside it, three of them engaged in the amateur manufacture of a pornographic film. Their effort will be interrupted by a variety of cinematograpic interludes: a lightning-fast montage of graphic (apparently genital) surgery footage, or one of the characters’ somber monologues; each is caught invariably by the others’ ambitions toward nihilism. This is an utterly visceral and nauseating viewing experience, and measuring by the scenes it concludes with I imagine that such a response is Moodysson’s very intention.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Metrodome DVD
30 Jan 2007 4:52 PM | Submit Comment