#aiste dirziute

[kaipanzero]

The Summer of Sangaile (2015)

[higherentity]

[gifshistorical]

Aistė Diržiūtė as Lauga · The Pagan King (2018)

[aether-xx]

If you want a hopeful wlw film, you should watch this. Also! The cinematography *chef’s kiss*

Summer of Sangaile (2015)

[tudorscharlot]

Sangailes vasara (The Summer of Sangaile) (Alante Kavaite, 2015)

I just watched this for the second time this week. The first time I watched it was in the month following a very painful breakup and when watching a staggering number of movies was the only thing keeping me afloat. I definitely had big and contradictory emotions about this movie since then, in addition to not really remembering it very clearly. But it has stayed with me in a nicely haunting way, and I was happy (and sad) to watch it again. 

Like a lot of eastern European storytelling, this (Lithuanian) film ends up feeling incredibly sad to me. But it’s a sad story, so how else could I feel? Sangaile and Auste have a beautiful time together that offers them both long-lasting enrichment. And one can’t really ask for more than that from any relationship. But their parting at the end bums me out. It IS a story of young love, and those stories are almost always intense, fleeting, and hard to get over. It’s realistic that they had a literal and emotional summer together and were good to each other in a way that will glow as they go forward in their lives. But the longing way that Auste looks at Sangaile in those last scenes is too sad.

This is a good film.

[wlwfilmscenes]

The Summer of Sangaile (Alante Kavaite, 2015)

[philomaela]

In the name of the Gods that reside within us all and by the life that courses in my blood, I choose you. To possess you, to be possessed by you and to love you with all my heart until the end of time.

[wlw-delusions]

Auste and Sangaile’s car scenes always have me feeling some type of way

[cheapcakeripper]

Ivo Martinsons as Valdis in Nameja Gredzens / The Pagan King (2018) part 11

[lecinemaestunart]

[sairceketli]

[lesfilmes]

The Summer of Sangaile (2015)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwsDP7_K2_Y

[gifshistorical]

Aistė Diržiūtė as Lauga · The Pagan King (2018)

[brielarsan]

You know nobody will understand you better than me? I know.

[rouzmary]

Finally saw Nameja gredzens (Namej’s Ring) aka The Pagan King (thou more accurate would've been the originally planned title: The King's Ring).

I, for one, liked it. It was a good movie. ;)

If at the beginning when it was announced I was tad unhappy that they're gonna use foreign actors for the movie's main roles, specifically Namejs himself, which is 100% Latvian - our history & legend - I soon got over it because what matters most is that the writing/directing and actors do a good job. Doesn't matter where they're from so long as the movie turns out good. And the actors did ok.

Then there are those who complain about the historical accuracy & such. ...really? It's a movie, not biography. And just like majority of movie's based on some fact/legend, most of the plot is made up for the screen. Along with costumes & language. Same thing here. Not even gonna say more.

Lastly, there is/was talk about the fact that since it's Latvia's 100th year the movie should've been properly made in Latvian instead of English. Well, for international use, I say - let there be English, the more people see it the better. But they really could've dubbed the Latvian version way better since the movie is 'bout our legend and all. Don't know what went wrong there, but other than that - I'm all for an English version - saw it, liked it.

Only real downside to the movie was the big fight scene on the beach. They really couldn't get more extras? Like, the fighting itself was well done, it's just that there were so few actors. If cgi is too expensive, they really should've gotten simply more people so that it wouldn't look so scarce :D

Nameja gredzens/The Pagan King was no masterpiece, but neither was it bad. The middle ground of good/ok. I'd give it a 7,5 out of 10 :)

They need to make more movies like this one about our legends :D