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Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson was born on January 17, 1969 in the Southern Swedish city of Malmo to a family of farmers. He and his parents lived in a commune when he was a child, which influenced his later film Tillsammans (Together). Lukas' parents divorced in the late seventies. Around this time, Lukas saw Ingmar Bergman's legendary film Fanny and Alexander. It is a film which dealt with a dissolving marriage, something which was familiar to young Lukas. Soon after his parent's split, Lukas began to write poetry, and by the age of seventeen, he was a published author, puting out a collection of poems entitled Det spelar ingen roll var blixtarna slår ner (It Doesn't Matter Where the Lightning Strikes), then promptly dropped out of school. Four more anthologies of poems followed, until his early 20s, when he decided to enroll in Sweden's only film school, Dramatiska Institutet. After a series of three short films, Lukas would begin work on his first full length feature - Fucking Amal.
Alright, I'm not much of a biography writer, but I didn't want to just copy and paste from the websites where I found this information. Here's hoping I'll get better over the next year.
I'm watching SML right now on my Zen, so that's five. I have to make sure to fit in tomorrow's viewing early, due to a long work day.
-Weaver
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