Sangaile
Directed by:
Alanté KavaïtéScreenplay:
Alanté KavaïtéCinematography:
Dominique ColinComposer:
Jean-Benoît DunckelPlots(1)
Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is mesmerised by the dance-like loop-de-loop and pirouettes of acrobatic pilots. She herself suffers from vertigo and could never imagine sitting in a cockpit. A quiet and introverted girl, she is spending her summer in the countryside at her parents' holiday home where she tries to see the local air shows as often as she can. This is where she meets Auste, who lives out her days with impressive confidence and plenty of imagination. Sangaile is fascinated by Auste's natural assertiveness. Together the girls sample everything that life in the country has to offer. They soon become close and, when Sangaile shares with Auste her most intimate secret, it gives her a sense of security she has never known before and provides her with the courage to fly for the first time in her life. In buoyant, cinematic images suffused with light Alanté Kavaïté brings together the isolated emotions of two very different girls in the universe that is young love. In her sensitive, intensely sensual film, she tells the story of their intimacy, their passionate devotion and delicate collisions; their vulnerability and sense of trust. (Berlinale)
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I must admit that I’d been really looking forward to this film. I’d mainly been looking forward to seeing a movie from Latvia. That’s what I ended up getting, but I’d had no idea how much emphasis would be put on the author’s feelings. And because of that, the movie presents pointless shots of meadows, a pond, a factory at the end of the surface of water and the whole thing has somewhat of a post-communist aftertaste. Apart from that, two fundamental characters make an appearance in the movie. Well and one of them is Sangaile, who this movie is about. That there’s barely any speaking in this movie, that I can accept. For instance, in the Icelandic movie Rams, it helped. The problem was that I didn’t really understand Sangiale. The same goes for those young guys who catch a fish which they want to roast on fire and when they find out there was some kind of a huge worm inside the fish, they all start taking pictures with it and they turn it into a cool event. This lack of understanding, the post-communist atmosphere and the scarce dialogues unfortunately cannot be saved by a summer mood, sometimes a good musical score, or a rather decent ending, which was the only part that managed to incite some emotions in me, and otherwise interesting acting performances. It’s a pity.
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