Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in Mary's stomach. The water breaks. It floods into me. I can't close the lid. My heart is full."
Direction
Moodysson at his most uncompromising — formally radical, emotionally raw.
Cinematography
Crushing blacks and ghostly whites that swallow the frame whole.
Sound
Jena Malone's voiceover as disembodied consciousness — haunting, intimate, alien.
Director
Lukas Moodysson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moodysson shot this in just 18 days with no script, only a poem he'd written. The actors improvised within his visual framework.
Released between 'A Hole in My Heart' and 'Mammoth,' this was Moodysson's deliberate retreat from commercial cinema after audience walkouts — his middle finger to accessibility.
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