Director:
Maris Martinsons
Run Time: 96 minutes
Country: LITHUANIA, IRELAND
Year: 2008
Maris Martinsons
Run Time: 96 minutes
Country: LITHUANIA, IRELAND
Year: 2008
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Loss (Nereikalingi Zmones)
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Director Maris Martinsons was inspired by "Six Degrees of Separation" to make LOSS, a moody tale that weaves together the stories of six seemingly unrelated people’s interconnected lives. One of the threads tells of Valda, a destitute young mother who gives her son to a local orphanage and takes off in search of a better life in Ireland, promising the boy she’ll return. In Ireland she meets a fellow Lithuanian, a priest with dark secrets in his past. Meanwhile, back home, Valda’s son is adopted by a businesswoman named Nora who has no children of her own. Nora’s former husband Ben is a permanently drunk former business owner whose life fell apart when his cell phone was used to trace calls to his mistresses. The final thread is Laima who is not only Ben’s ex-lover, but also the cutthroat new head of his former business. LOSS is a meditation on the fragmented nature of contemporary life in Lithuania. Popular musician Andrius Momontovas, who scored the atmospheric soundtrack for the film, also plays the priest. (In Lithuanian with subtitles and English)– B.B.
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Film presented with support of
| Sidebars | Central and Eastern European Film Competition, Women Of The World |
| Producer | Maris Martinsons, Linda Krukle, Zivile Gallego |
| Screenplay | Maris Martinsons, Raimondas Paskevicius |
| Cinematography | Gints Berzins |
| Editing | Maris Martinsons |
| Music | Andrius Mamontovas |
| Principal Cast | Valda Bickute, Kostas Smoriginas, Andrius Mamontovas, Dalia Micheleviciute, Daiva Tamosiunaite |
| Director Bio | Maris Martinsons is a native of Latvia who received his drama theater director’s degree from the Latvia Conservatoire in 1989. He is a seasoned music video and television writer-director who directed the first Latvian independent music video. He also founded the production company ARTeta, which is the largest studio in the Baltic States. |
| Select Filmography | LOSS (2008) |
| Print Source |
ART&A linda@art-a.lt www.lossmovie.com |
Past Screenings
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 9:30 PMSaturday, March 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM
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