Dima (Jamie Day) and Kostas (Bruce Ross) in The Writer. Romas Zabarauskas: 'I believe that we cannot allow ourselves to isolate. And these isolationist tendencies are happening on both sides of the political spectrum' Lithuanian director Romas Zabarauskas’ The Writer sees two former lovers Kostas (Bruce Ross) and Dima (Jamie Day) reconnect over the course of a day and night after an absence of 30 years. The film reveals their relationship history but also explores more philosophical and political questions about left and right, conflict and gender identity. We caught up with Zabarauskas at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - where the film is in the Baltic Film Competition - to talk about its themes.
You’re still quite young but you’ve chosen older characters to work with in this film, can you tell us a bit about that?
Rz: For this project, I was impacted by Russia's...
You’re still quite young but you’ve chosen older characters to work with in this film, can you tell us a bit about that?
Rz: For this project, I was impacted by Russia's...
- 11/17/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
There's a gentle soulfulness underlying Romas Zabarauskas' tale of reconnection between two old lovers that runs the constant risk of being buried by a film that is also being used as a vehicle to consider densely scripted philosophical and political viewpoints. Co-written by Marc David Jacobs, Anastasia Sosunova and Arturas Tereskinas there's enough topics of conversation here to fill the same amount of movies and some paring back would have been welcome.
The chamber piece - enlivened by some nice New York street interludes and a jazzy score from Ieva Marija Baranauskaite - unfolds largely in the apartment owned by Lithuanian writer Kostas (Bruce Ross). He is about to share a meal with former lover Dima (Jamie Day) - a Russian emigre to Lithuania - along with a ruminative conversation which will cover everything from the conflict in Ukraine to assumptions made about bisexuals.
Tension springs from the circumstances in which.
The chamber piece - enlivened by some nice New York street interludes and a jazzy score from Ieva Marija Baranauskaite - unfolds largely in the apartment owned by Lithuanian writer Kostas (Bruce Ross). He is about to share a meal with former lover Dima (Jamie Day) - a Russian emigre to Lithuania - along with a ruminative conversation which will cover everything from the conflict in Ukraine to assumptions made about bisexuals.
Tension springs from the circumstances in which.
- 11/17/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘The Writer’ and ’The Activist’ will follow ’The Lawyer’.
Lithuanian writer-director-producer Romas Zabarauskas has unveiled the next two parts of a queer genre-driven trilogy at the Baltic Producers Spotlight as part of the EFM’s Baltic Countries in Focus.
Following first film The Lawyer, Zabarauskas has cast Jamie Day and Bruce Ross to star in the English-language romantic drama The Writer about two former lovers reconnecting in New York 30 years after serving together in the Soviet army.
The €350,000 co-production between Zabarauskas’ own Vilnius-based production outfit Naratyvas, Glenn Elliott’s Berlin-based Artysta Management and Aidan Tumas of New York’s Dead Heat Pictures,...
Lithuanian writer-director-producer Romas Zabarauskas has unveiled the next two parts of a queer genre-driven trilogy at the Baltic Producers Spotlight as part of the EFM’s Baltic Countries in Focus.
Following first film The Lawyer, Zabarauskas has cast Jamie Day and Bruce Ross to star in the English-language romantic drama The Writer about two former lovers reconnecting in New York 30 years after serving together in the Soviet army.
The €350,000 co-production between Zabarauskas’ own Vilnius-based production outfit Naratyvas, Glenn Elliott’s Berlin-based Artysta Management and Aidan Tumas of New York’s Dead Heat Pictures,...
- 2/18/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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