1998 · drama · latvian
The Shoe
Directed by Laila Pakalnina1h 23m1998
The late 1950s. Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from the sea. One morning, three Soviet patrolmen discover a woman’s shoe in the sand and footsteps leading to the quaint little village of Liepaja.
Our read: The Shoe (1998) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · latvian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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