1981 · comedy · latvian · soviet
A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve
Directed by Janis Streics1h 23m1981
When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car which she cannot use herself, all sorts of family members suddenly appear by her side, hoping to get the car after their auntie's death. Until then, they had never helped Mirta, it was only her neighbours who supported her in her old age. Now, her nephew Ēriks with his wife and son, and her ex-daughter-in-law Olita with her second husband and daughter, would all love to get their hands on the car that's in the colour of Midsummer's Eve.
Our read: A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve (1981) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · latvian · soviet entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / latvian, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
- funny
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