A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetual dream: that of a young man who no longer wants to wake up, immersed as he is in this world of fascinating spectres.
Cinematography
Black-and-white that breathes like living tissue.
Direction
Bartas makes time itself a character.
Production
Cramped rooms feel infinite, vast emptiness feels claustrophobic.
Director
Šarūnas Bartas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Leos Carax appears as an actor here during his infamous 'lost period' between Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and Pola X—he reportedly accepted the role because Bartas promised him no dialogue and maximum cigarettes.
Made in 1997, this epitomizes the 'slow cinema' movement before it had a name; Bartas was Lithuanian cinema's ghost before anyone knew to look for it.
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