New Europe Film Sales has acquired “The best way to Divorce Throughout the Struggle,” the third characteristic by Lithuanian director Andrius Blaževičius, forward of its world premiere within the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic Competitors.
New Europe described the movie as “a pointy, emotionally resonant drama laced with irony.” It’s “a portrait of a Europe caught between worry and denial, solidarity and fatigue, beliefs and luxury.”
Set in Vilnius in 2022, it’s a narrative of a high-flying govt Marija, who chooses the worst attainable second for an trustworthy dialog together with her husband Vytas about divorcing – simply in the future earlier than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine goes into full scale. Now the couple should navigate the method of separation because it collides with a refugee and mid-life disaster.
The movie works each as a relationship drama and a conflict movie and exhibits an ironic duality of the couple’s mid-life disaster and the lifetime of the Ukrainian refugees in Vilnius. On a regular basis home conditions carry an undercurrent of frustration and hidden violence, moments of chaos and absurdity coexist with heartbreak. The strain between Marija, Vytas, and their daughter Dovilė quietly reveals the aftershocks of each divorce and conflict.
The movie’s artistic group consists of DP Narvydas Naujalis, editor Anna Johnson Ryndová, manufacturing designer Greta Vileikytė and composer Jakub Rataj. It’s produced by Marija Razgute of M-Movies (Lithuania), with co-producers Purple Lion (Luxembourg), Feline Movies (Eire), and Bionaut (Czech Rep.).
The venture participated within the New Nordic Movies Co-Manufacturing Market and the Berlinale Co-Manufacturing Market.
Blaževičius beforehand gained worldwide recognition with “The Saint” (Warsaw and Busan movie festivals) and “Runner” (Karlovy Range Movie Pageant).
New Europe’s head of acquisitions, Marcin Luczaj, stated in a press release: “We’ve been struck and impressed with Andrius’ imaginative and prescient and the universe, which resonated with us carefully. The movie is mixing an intimate relationship drama with the strain of a society beneath stress, and strikes a uncommon tonal steadiness: emotionally uncooked but sharply observant, up to date but universally relatable, tragic but typically darkly comedic.”
New Europe’s slate consists of Dara van Dusen’s upcoming “A Prayer for the Dying,” starring Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly, Jeremiah Zagar’s “The Painted Bride,” starring Jeremy Allen White, in addition to two opponents for the worldwide characteristic movie Oscar – Hlynur Pálmason’s “The Love That Stays” (Iceland) and Laszlo Nemes’ “Orphan” (Hungary).
