2003 · drama · estonian
Somnambulance
Directed by Sulev Keedus2h 9m2003
Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.
Our read: Somnambulance (2003) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal drama · estonian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / estonian, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- inventive
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