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Locarno Competition Entry Explores the Impact on Teenage Girls of a ‘Toxic’ Culture: ‘I Wanted to Make This Film Very Fleshy’
Directed by Lithuania’s Saulė Bliuvaitė, ‘Toxic’ pictures two 13-year-old girl friends coming to terms with heir bodies and identities.
Showing in competition at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, writer-director Saulė Bliuvaitė’s debut feature “Toxic” is a hard-hitting coming-of-age story which eschews the cliches as her 13-year-old protagonists come to terms with their bodies and identities one hot summer in Lithuania. Marija (Vesta Matulytė) and Kristina (Ieva Rupeikaitė) are two young girls who form a friendship as they become aspirants for a modelling school which promises an escape from their dreary reality. “Toxic” is produced by Lithuanian independent studio Akis Bado founded by Giedre Burokaritè and Robertas Nevecka and based in Vilnius.
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