2014 · drama · latvian
Modris
Directed by Juris Kursietis1h 38m2014
A true story of a 17 going on 18 year-old boy called Modris. He’s a guy who goes to school, has a girlfriend and some good friends. He has a small gambling addiction, which makes his relationship with his mother difficult. It’s also hard because the two of them live alone and the mother doesn’t miss a chance to remind him that his father is in prison and that Modris has a bad gene. Their relationship boils over when, in the middle of a Nordic winter, Modris pawns his mother’s electric heater in trying to squeeze a win from a slot machine. She betrays him to the police and Modris is sentenced to two years’ probation. That is when his adventures with the Latvian justice system begin and he sets a new goal: to find the father he has never met.
Our read: Modris (2014) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · latvian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / latvian, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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