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Akiplėša (2024)

Drama | 99 minutes
3,15 26 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 99 minuten

Alternative title: Toxic

Country: Lithuania

Directed by: Saule Bliuvaite

Stars: Vesta Matulytė, Ieva Rupeikaitė and Giedrius Savickas

IMDb score: 6,7 (1.831)

Releasedate: 15 August 2024

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Akiplėša plot

Abandoned by her mother, 13-year-old Maria is forced to live with her grandmother in a bleak industrial town. During a violent clash on the street, Maria meets Kristina, a girl of the same age who aspires to become a model. In an attempt to get closer to her, Maria enrolls in a mysterious modeling school, where the girls are preparing for the biggest casting event in the region. Her ambiguous relationship with Kristina and the intense, cult-like environment of the modeling school set Maria on a quest for her own identity.

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mrklm

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This depressing social drama focuses on Marija [Vesta Matulyte] and Kristine [Ieva Rupeikaite], two underage teenagers from a poor, bleak Lithuanian village, who hope to escape their hopeless existence by training to become models. The result is an obsession with physical perfection, but Bliuvaite does little with that. There's hardly any narrative, and so Bliuvaite is repetitive. A few surreal dance scenes hold the attention, though their meaning is somewhat vague, to say the least. That Bliuvaite criticizes the ideal of beauty (the other villagers certainly don't meet it) is quickly apparent, however. Anyone truly interested in the exploitation of teenage girls in the modeling world would be better off turning to Girl Model (2011).

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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A bit of a mix between drama and atmosphere. But the acting is simply too shallow to be engaging for the drama, and the atmosphere is too overwrought with drama and too loosely based, making many individual scenes okay in themselves (that last shot in the parking lot is beautiful) but not effective within the film. All in all, not a bad film, but not always captivating, despite some beautiful photography. I already mentioned that last shot, but the one of nature awakening after the party was also very atmospheric. 2.5 stars.

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De filosoof

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This is the kind of arthouse film I don't connect with much. Based on her own experiences and a sense of social relevance (or "urgency," as some call it), the director thought it would be a good idea to make a film about the difficult lives of teenage girls in a Lithuanian slum. And so she made that film: we see primarily two 13-year-old girls in a slum where they experience alcohol, drugs, sex, and petty crime. Apparently, like all the girls in the neighborhood, they dream of a modeling career, doing everything from eating a tapeworm to lose weight to prostitution for a photoshoot. While the modeling agency is actually scammers who exploit the ambition or desperation of the girls who want to escape. That's all very interesting, but the director forgot to create a story, so there are no dramatic events. And what little story can be gleaned from the successive scenes—their initial argument but then suddenly becoming best friends, or their apparent rejection from casting because it ends with a scene of them happily playing basketball again, so apparently they weren't sent to Japan or Paris as models—isn't told, but you have to deduce it yourself, let alone explain anything. Perhaps it's a self-consciously chosen filmmaking style, but I find it a poor, tedious one, though otherwise the film doesn't do much wrong.

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