Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Gunars returns to Riga to look after his ill Father. Instead of documenting his prolonged stay, he creates a sarcastically fictionalised and hard-to-define personal rollercoaster film, constructed from home videos, reinvented moments, funny improvisations, bright memories, social media interventions, and occasional observational footage accompanied by a written monologue. Real-life situations blend into scripted scenes and wicked interpretations in this snappy comical family diary.
Since husband Ludwig is sitting shortly before the 20th wedding anniversary, a blond, very, very young girl at his side, and to his wife Jackie: "I'd like to make it easy for you, for example, I say, it's not up to you, there I am but I'm a bad liar." It's over and Jackie boldly begins a new life. A very entertaining comedy.
This quiet — and at times intimate — character study successfully reproduces a substance-over-style, low-budget documentary tone to examine the life of its curious protagonist, Gunar Taurins (played with restrained eclecticism by Gundars Abolins). When Gunar travels to France, hired to find a suitable property for a wealthy friend’s new home, his impulsive, bumbling habits and uncanny ability to run into bad luck leads him into crossing paths with a string of unusual characters who are just as flawed —…
An absurdist look at a modern man's great grandfather and the role he played during the Russian Revolution.