The Corridor Reviews

Where to begin? As complicated as the cinema of its author, the Lithuanian Bartas. This is the third title of his filmography and is a perfect example of his peculiar style. Along with Sokurov, Bartas is the most recognizable continuation of aesthetics that characterized the seminal work of Andrei Tarkovsky.

The film is a series of symbols related to the troubled recent history of their country. With half of its 80 minutes left over to capture the idea and had gotten a work in line "In Memory of a Day Gone By" (1990), estimable documentary with which he began to make movies. And, even better, fifteen minutes: it would be a perfect graduation work, with the usual condensation of ideas and under the usual cryptic rescued and support provided by a universe of symbols. But to achieve this, it is obvious that should be deleted, for example, most sustained and elongated fixed shots and contemplative sequences so typical way to make Bartas.

Agreeing to an apparent dead time has a certain meaning in any of the movies of this director, can not be said that a chain of them serve for the enjoyment of the beholder, however contemplative cinema fan (like me) it is.