2020 · animation · documentary · latvian
My Favorite War
Directed by Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen1h 22m2020
Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.
Our read: My Favorite War (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive animation · documentary · latvian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured animation / documentary, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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