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‘Drowning Dry’ Review: Subtle Lithuanian Drama Depicts a Family Tragedy Across Fragmented Time and Points of View
Director Laurynas Bareiša confirms reputation as a rising talent, as well as his interest in exploring trauma through repetition and fragmentation.
Here serving as his own DP, Bareiša employs a spare, closely observed shooting style that favors fixed-angle long takes in which the characters bustle in and out of the frame, as well as shots with mirrors that disorient the viewer. Meanwhile, the relationship of their respective husbands, Lukas (Giedrius Kiela), a fit, tattooed mixed martial arts competitor, and Tomas (Paulius Markevičius), a pompous, out-of-shape businessman with a powerful car, is marked by a competitive one-upmanship that ultimately leads to a shocking calamity. Although the guys manage to take the kids, Lukas’s son Kristupas (Herkus Scrapas) and Tomas’s daughter Urté (Olivija Eva Vilune), to swim in the lake, they aren’t the most observant of parents, as a rhyming scene makes clear later on.
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