2008 · drama · latvian
Loss
Directed by Māris Martinsons1h 35m2008
A mentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands Lithuanians, she immigrates to Ireland to earn money to save him. "Loss" portrays the beauty and tragedy of the human heart.
Our read: Loss (2008) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · latvian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / latvian, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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