RIGA IFF: Izlecējas

Saule Bļuvaite
Jumps out
Akilőpa
LT
2024, 99', lt
We recommend from the age of 16 They could be the two thousandths, just as well today. A modeling agency has found its place among hangars, run-down sheds and gravel playgrounds. For 13-year-old Kristina, a modeling school with a dubious reputation is a promise of a life elsewhere - perhaps in Paris or Japan - and she is ready to starve, buy tapeworm eggs, and subject her psychological health to a drastic regimen. When she meets Maria, a slightly shy peer with a leg deformity raised by her grandmother, they quickly become friends. Both of them forge plans, how the upcoming casting could allow them both to stand on their own path of independence. To seek evaluation from others and to run away from themselves. This is how Lithuanian director Bļuvaite described her debut feature film, whose plot and textures were based on her teenage memories, when she wanted to become a model. The industrial landscape, millennial low-waisted jeans, siphoning from a plastic bottle, spiraling relationships with parents and a big dream that puts unwanted pressure on both young girls. Unexpectedly, this visually polished coming-of-age drama acquires the cinema status of the Baltic "On the Edge of the Rye Field" and the parallels of the cult film "Children" (1995) co-produced by Larry Clark and Harmonij Corin. The film that won the main Locarno competition ("Golden Leopard" award) stars two film debutantes - model Vesta Matulīte and Ieva Rupeikaite - whose organic nature is a rare event on the big scene.

Recommended age: 16+
Screen language: Lithuanian
Subtitle language: English
Synchronous translation: Latvian
Session duration: 99 min
Place for a wheelchair: yes

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