Cinephilia

Cinephilia

2021 · 110 min · ★ 4.5 · History, Comedy

With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.

Directed by Algimantas Puipa

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Vesta Šumilovaitė – Tertelienė Izabelė
Mantas Zemleckas Rolandas
Fausta Semionovaite Sesilija
Lukas Malinauskas Teodoras
Inesa Marcinkevičiūtė Gabija
Jūratė Onaitytė Lora
Juozas Budraitis Režisierius
Kostas Smoriginas Sesilijos tėvas
Valentinas Masalskis Teatro režisierius
Dainius Svobonas Sunkvežimio vairuotojas
Vytautas Kaniušonis Sunkvežimio vairuotojas
Vytautas Anužis Prodiuseris

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