nitial release: January 22, 2007 (Riga)
Director: Juris Poskus
Screenplay: Juris Poskus
Cast: Iveta Pole, Varis Pinkis, Madara Melberga , Artuss Kaimins, Andris Strods
Awards:
Latvian National Film Festival 2007
Latvian Film Prize
Best Actress: Iveta Pole
Best Director: Juris Poskus
Minsk International Film Festival 2007
Best Cinematography: Juris Poskus
Moscow International Film Festival 2007
Best Film of the Perspectives Competition
Riga International Film Forum ‘Arsenals’ 2008
Festival Prize best Baltic Film Debut
Following an ad in the paper, Ilze leaves her native village to become an
actress. She fails the audition, but her pride won’t let her to return home.
Her boyfriend is skeptical about her ambitions, he comes after her to
bring her back home. The plot evolves around their relationship as they
pretend and lie to each other trying to deal with emotional dissonance.
The film is an improvised collaboration between the director- Poskus
and actors from Jaunais Rigas Teatris (the New Riga Theatre). They
started out with only one precondition. Each character in the film
needed to have a dream. “We wanted to make a movie about everyday
banality where there is no big story. We just wanted to show small guy
story that usually are not being shot in movies,” said Poskus. What
results is the story of a girl from a small Latvian village who leaves the
routine monotony of small town life for what eventually turns out to be
the routine monotony of the big city.
