Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
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Cast
- Julija SteponaitytėSangaile
- Aistė DiržiūtėAuste
- Jūratė SodytėSangaile's Mother
- Martynas BudraitisSangailės tėvas
- Laurynas JurgelisSaulius
- Nelė SavičenkoSangailės motinos draugė
- Inga ŠalkauskaitėAustės motina
- Gailė ButvilaitėAustės draugė
- Anupras JuciusAustės draugas
- Ignas GužauskasAustės draugas
Recommendations
- 80
Variety
At its best, The Summer of Sangaile captures the special intensity of those relationships in which everything seems to fade away save for the other person. - 75
Slant Magazine
Writer-director Alanté Kavaité's film is a string of softly weaved pictorial metaphors steeped in reverie. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Awash with ripe, voluptuous summertime imagery and brimming with aborning adolescent female sexuality, The Summer of Sangaile is an appealingly simple, poetically conceived teen coming-of-age tale. - 70
Village Voice
Lesbian coming-of-age tales can be sensationalistic and leering, but this film (directed by a woman, Alanté Kavaïté) casts a sensitive eye on the understated story of Sangaile (Julija Steponaityté), a shy, troubled girl who begins a relationship with the more ebullient Auste (Aisté Dirziuté). - 67
Hitfix
The film's central conflict and Sangaile's arc's are, unfortunately, thin. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Distractingly lovely to look at, the film can't make Sangaile's struggles or triumphs matter. Its soaring conclusion feels anticlimactic, the story drifting off into air. - 50
The New York Times
It’s all very heady and voluptuous, but it’s also painfully superficial. - 50
RogerEbert.com
A young Lithuanian woman learns about the healing power of love in The Summer of Sangaile, a movie that ultimately is about as shallow as that central theme sounds.
