Lithuania has selected Šerkšnas (Frost), directed by Sarunas Bartas, for best foreign-language film for the Oscars.
The drama, which had its world premiere in the Director's Fortnight section at Cannes film festival this year, follows a young Lithuanian couple on a road trip from the Baltics to Ukraine's war-torn Donbass region.
The film was co-produced by Lithuania, France, Ukraine and Poland and features Vanessa Paradis alongside Lithuanian actors Mantas Janciauskas and Lyja Maknaviciute and Poland's Andrzej Chyra.
The film's production companies are Studija Kinema, KinoElektron, Insight Media/Tato Film, Donten & Lacroix Films, Knm and Reborn Production,...
The drama, which had its world premiere in the Director's Fortnight section at Cannes film festival this year, follows a young Lithuanian couple on a road trip from the Baltics to Ukraine's war-torn Donbass region.
The film was co-produced by Lithuania, France, Ukraine and Poland and features Vanessa Paradis alongside Lithuanian actors Mantas Janciauskas and Lyja Maknaviciute and Poland's Andrzej Chyra.
The film's production companies are Studija Kinema, KinoElektron, Insight Media/Tato Film, Donten & Lacroix Films, Knm and Reborn Production,...
- 9/9/2017
- by Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author: Stefan Pape
Lithuanian filmmaker Sarunas Bartas’ Frost – a road movie into the heart of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine – has an opening act that could well send you to sleep, with extensive character building, slow-burning and pensive in its execution. But the patient (still awake) viewers will be rewarded with a compelling final act that makes up for what preceded it.
Rokas (Mantas Janciauskas) bravely, if somewhat mysteriously, agrees to volunteer as a driver, and head all the way to war-torn Ukraine to provide humanitarian aid. Convincing his girlfriend Inga (Lyja Maknaviciute) to join him for this lengthy, precarious endeavour, they set off to lend a hand. Stopping off several times along the way to their destination, one night in Poland stands out, with Inga sleeping with Andrei (Andrzej Chyra) and Rokas indulging in a profound conversation with a French journalist (played by Vanessa Paradis) about love, and the sadness that comes with it.
Lithuanian filmmaker Sarunas Bartas’ Frost – a road movie into the heart of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine – has an opening act that could well send you to sleep, with extensive character building, slow-burning and pensive in its execution. But the patient (still awake) viewers will be rewarded with a compelling final act that makes up for what preceded it.
Rokas (Mantas Janciauskas) bravely, if somewhat mysteriously, agrees to volunteer as a driver, and head all the way to war-torn Ukraine to provide humanitarian aid. Convincing his girlfriend Inga (Lyja Maknaviciute) to join him for this lengthy, precarious endeavour, they set off to lend a hand. Stopping off several times along the way to their destination, one night in Poland stands out, with Inga sleeping with Andrei (Andrzej Chyra) and Rokas indulging in a profound conversation with a French journalist (played by Vanessa Paradis) about love, and the sadness that comes with it.
- 6/11/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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