Keti Lopp (2017)

	Also Known As: The end of the chain, Das Ende der Kette
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Priit Pääsuke
	Actors: Maiken Schmidt
	Country: LT
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 04.11.2017, CineStar 3, NFDL2017, Estonian/Russian with English subtitle
Synopsis: A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go, because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other - all of them on the verge of a breakdown - or perhaps a breakthrough? The main character, Waitress (Schmidt), sees and absorbs it all. One by one - through their personal drama - the clients push the Waitress towards her own borders.
Review: The idea sounds like Clerks in a bizarre manner, without funny behaviours but rather with absurd and bizarre characters and events all along the movie, both in the Kett and in the outside metagaming. The focus on the main actress and how she gets put down by everyone, about her social life, her sexual life, her intelligence, her brain capabilities, her responsibilities. Therefore I like this originality. The absurdity of Keti Lopp is a counterpart to the film Kafka (1991) inspired by Kafka's literature where the society was organised to be absurd. Here absurdity is in each of us and fully disorganised. The lack of fun and rythm is not easy to deal with, so that I got bored at some times feelings the flaws of long blanks in the storytelling. It is not easy to say whether the actors are good as their behaviour is so strange. Many scenes are played seriously whereas these are fully absurd and improbable! They must have had so much fun during the writing and then during the shot of the movie. Maiken Schmidt acting is really done with her encountering so much critic. To enhance some absurdity, several camera angles have been used such as the camera on the parking lot. The idea and the cheap-looking realisation for a disproportionately humourous effect give value to this movie. One rare Lithuanian movie showing that it is worth investing there.
Rating: 5 /10