The action unfolds through the watchful eyes of an emotionally wounded 10-year-old boy stuck with his strict grandmother, but the film’s odd tone, incompletely developed characters and uneven perfo…
,” narrow-minded rural Latvia seems as full of lurid secrets as Peyton Place, as well as being a locale where everyone has their nose in everyone else’s business. Marking the feature debut of writer-director Dace Pūce , it’s adapted from three stories by Latvian literary prize-winner Jana Egle.
Markus spends every free moment drawing, and his ambition is to earn a fortune by being a great artist. He resents being sent on make-busy projects by Solveiga, especially when they involve the company of his father’s alcoholic cousin Roberts , who beats his meek wife Smaida . Roberts and Smaida live nearby with Solveiga’s brother Alberts , a mild man with unexplained issues in his past who is unable to do much about his son’s brutality.
While performing one of Solveiga’s endless string of errands, Markus meets the mysterious hermit Sailor , probably the film’s most interesting character, who lives at the edge of the forest. Poking around Sailor’s premises, Markus discovers an art project, a beautiful but incomplete stained-glass window. Soon, unbeknownst to Solveiga, he and his fellow loner are working together to finish it.
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