Some friends and I went to see this movie at the local EU Film Festival in Tokyo, where it was representing Lithuania.
Unfortunately, this drab "arthouse" film has little to recommend it. The main characters- a divorced alcoholic and a desperate model with some sort of murky backstory- are unpleasant and uninteresting. The plot meanders from "so what?" to "who cares?" as we watch the man repeatedly drink, gamble and have a hangover in the morning....Even the scenery is dreary. By the end, we're indifferent as to what has transpired during the lean 90-minute running time.
As one of my colleagues pointed out, it's a "slice-of-life" drama (which Eastern European countries usually do so well) but about low-lives.
If you're looking for a better film from the Baltic Republics, go and enjoy Estonia's "Klass" (9/10) or even Latvia's beautifully shot but overly patriotic "Defenders of Riga (7/10). There's nothing here to to recommend to the viewer....
Unfortunately, this drab "arthouse" film has little to recommend it. The main characters- a divorced alcoholic and a desperate model with some sort of murky backstory- are unpleasant and uninteresting. The plot meanders from "so what?" to "who cares?" as we watch the man repeatedly drink, gamble and have a hangover in the morning....Even the scenery is dreary. By the end, we're indifferent as to what has transpired during the lean 90-minute running time.
As one of my colleagues pointed out, it's a "slice-of-life" drama (which Eastern European countries usually do so well) but about low-lives.
If you're looking for a better film from the Baltic Republics, go and enjoy Estonia's "Klass" (9/10) or even Latvia's beautifully shot but overly patriotic "Defenders of Riga (7/10). There's nothing here to to recommend to the viewer....
