Pilis
Directed by:
Lina LuzyteScreenplay:
Lina LuzyteCinematography:
Michael LavelleComposer:
Jonas JurkūnasCast:
Barbora Bareikytė, Gabija Jaraminaite, Jurate Onaitite, Martyna Peszko, Dermot Magennis, Janice Byrne, Rimante Valiukaite, Aidan O'Hare (more)Plots(1)
This coming of age story follows Monika, a thirteen-year old Lithuanian girl, a few weeks after she arrives in Dublin with her mother and grandmother. Monika dreams of becoming a famous musician. After she and her mother play at a funeral, they are invited by a mysterious older music impresario to play at 'The Castle', but her mother is a realist and instead sells their keyboard. Monika is left to resort to desperate measures in order to raise the money to hire 'her' keyboard back and take her once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make her dreams come true. (Cinemax)
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I have quite a weakness for Baltic cinema. And I must say that I was really looking forward to the Castle. From a dramatic point of view, it's fine, but besides the nice Irish setting, it all seemed to me to be just standardly Europeanly dramatically sad. One almost wonders what those Lithuanians were expecting in Ireland. Are things worse in Lithuania? After all, it's not the time it used to be twenty or thirty years ago, right?
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