80
Variety by Scott Foundas
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.
The Summer of Sangaile (Sangailės vasara)
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- Lithuania,
- France,
- Netherlands
- 2015
- · 88m
Director
Alantė Kavaitė
Cast
Julija Steponaitytė,
Aistė Diržiūtė,
Jūratė Sodytė,
Martynas Budraitis,
Laurynas Jurgelis,
Nelė Savičenko
Genre
Drama,
Romance
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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What are critics saying?
75
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
Writer-director Alanté Kavaité's film is a string of softly weaved pictorial metaphors steeped in reverie.
70
Village Voice by Abbey Bender
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).
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy
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.
67
Hitfix
The film's central conflict and Sangaile's arc's are, unfortunately, thin.
67
Hitfix by Gregory Ellwood
The film's central conflict and Sangaile's arc's are, unfortunately, thin.
60
Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
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
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.
50
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
It’s all very heady and voluptuous, but it’s also painfully superficial.
50
RogerEbert.com by Mark Dujsik
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.
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