Persona

note all images :© Eni Turkeshi Photography



A photographic project inspired by the movie `PERSONA` of one of my most beloved directors : Ingmar Bergman

Lilja 4-ever (Bitter but stunning!)

Lilja is a normal , easygoing teenager , living in the former Soviet Union.She's very happy to hear that her mother is living to US with her boyfriend.She longs to go anywhere away from where she lives , as she finds it dreadfully boring.She likes Britney Spears so she's so excited to going there.Alas , she's abruptly told, that it'd be better if she followed them later.She is left alone in a poor , gloomy apartment , with no money, but vague promises.She's soon told from their state's child protection institution , about her being abadoned from her family as an unwanted inheritor.This causes ferocious pain to Lilja , but she's not an easygoing teenager any longer.After several , dissapointed trials , she starts prostituting to survive. She's become bitterly realistic , trying deceitfully to manage everything as she was totally apathetic.The sole sunbeam in her gloomy life ,is Volodya , a teenager guy , newly rejected from his family.It's heartbreaking and yet astonishing to see how this two lonely , abandoned, disasapointed, two kindred spirits aspire about a new , different, happy life without any dependences to anything they hate or that they are forced to have to live with.
Lilja falls for Andrei ; a guy she meets at the club where she realises her meetings with unknown men.Andrei promises her a new life in Sweden.She follows him , trying to escape from her dark reality , sadly , unaware of the fatal suprises that her fate will be concocting..The harsh reality of this movie seems to slap up your nerves.
Yet, the director has realised a great work conveying the inner worlds of two desperate teenagers , magnificiently proofing us that the liberty and redemption , lies in our soul ;that escaping from all evils depends to us ,ignoring all of the banal,quotidian , unescapable truths of life.
It's for that reason , that this movie is so replenishing , at least according to me.
Winner of different awards and nominated in different film festivals , "Lilja 4-ever" is a very special film , that I'd highly recommend.
For more infos check:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/
Rated : 7.8 over 10 at imdb.com .My vote: 8

p.s: photo sources: www.imdb.com & www.outnow.ch

Questionnaire - Which movies scare you to death?

I remember when I was in college (high school) we used to rent a movie each week.We had a "cinema night" each day of the week.

I got so nervous to see my friends , that I knew were scared to death from horror movies , to ask for renting them.I mean where's the point of watching such a movie if you'll scream all the time, hide your self under the cushions and be terrorized?

Me?? I just laughed at those films.Horror films are nothing for me , seriously.

Freddy Krueger? Well ,that's a candy.Vampire movies ? Oh they make me lough loudly...

The "Omen" serial was good at the beginning , but now it sucks.

But I do like the far east horror films such as "Ring" , ""Grudge" , "A tale of two sisters" etc..I think the Far East Cinematography does the best of them.Maybe because of the elements of their culture , they manage to do something particular.At least one can be harrased while watching them.

I feel I'm hearing you asking : Isn't there any movie you are afraid of for God's sake?

Well , there is one in fact..I don't know it's original name but if I translate it from Albanian would be "The house at the island".I have controlled this movies from the imdb , but I have found nothing :( I've been 5-6 years old when I first watched it and I don't remember many things , but I guess it was a Scandinavian movie.

I can't forget the moment the main actress enters to a room filled with dolls.The dolls start crying.I've always been afraid of clowns and some dolls faces.I always have felt they bear something evil under their shining beauty and happy smiles.

And the movie's music and scenes cut was really disturbing.I'm not sure if I'll have the same feeling if I watch that movie now , but this "crying dolls" scene is terrifying.

What about the movies you are afraid of?Let us know.

Shqip: Miq na shkruani per filmat e frikshem qe ju kane bere pershtypje ose qe frikesoheni sa here i shihni!

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