2012 · drama · latvian
Forest of Echoes
Directed by Maria Luz Olivares Capelle30m2012
A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids on the shore of a lagoon. On summer holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?
Our read: Forest of Echoes (2012) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · latvian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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