2016 · drama · latvian
Mellow Mud
Directed by Renārs Vimba1h 45m2016
Siblings Roby and Raya after the death of their father and being abandoned by their mother, are forced to live with their dominating grandmother in a small country house owned by their family. Things change after the sudden death of their grandmother. The teenagers have to face a tough choice: either to report the accident and submit themselves to a life in an orphanage or hide the dead body and live as if nothing has happened.
Our read: Mellow Mud (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · latvian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / latvian, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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