Vasara (2018)

	Also Known As: Summer survivors
	Year of first release: 2018
	Director: Marija Kavtaradzė
	Actors: Indrė Patkauskaitė, Paulius Markevičius, Gelminė Glemžaitė
	Country: LT
	Genre: Drama, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 31.10.2018, Kolosseum, Lithuanian with English subtitle
Synopsis: The psychology-student Indre (Patkauskaite) forces to get one job in a clinic. First she is ordered to take two young patients - Paulius (Markevicius) and Juste (Glemzaite) - to a psychiatric hospital in a seaside town. Paulius suffers from bipolar disorder and his mood is shifting, Juste is being treated after a suicide attempt, but she refuses to admit she needs help. Travelling together makes them closer to each other. Especially because Indre has difficulties communicating with people.
Review: The pitch sounds very good. The story and the characters are very shortly introduced before their journey starts. And then it is rather a series of episodes with something funny or weird. I liked these episodes a lot, as stand alone. But I did not find a good common theme that we follow along the movie. The central part seems to me very long as if the trip through Lithuania would takes weeks for a small country and especially for a task supposed to be short for the day.  The way the three characters act and play together at the beginning is very surprising. The directing of actors and the acting is good so that the dialogues could be understood by just listening to the voices (I don't get any word in Lithuanian!). This might be the reason why I would have liked to get more from the characters in the thesis and synthesis parts of the story.
Rating: 4 /10