>>> Cahiers du Cinema/ Editio Lietuva (Lithuania)
LAURA (25) lives like there’s no tomorrow. Her life is easy and pleasant. Her chosen way of life – a freeloader of rich men – not too tiring as well. Especially when fed up with one admirer she can easily replace him. Feeling aren’t tough to act, just like an orgasm and Laura successfully controls the situation. Day after day.
Yet one day in Laura’s life ends up different from the rest. Having woken up in an ordinary lover’s bed, the girl starts remembering strange things happening to her from time to time. Laura gets to witness how her close friends in order to be themselves for a moment, invoke famous cinematic attributes: repeat situations or imitate the behavior of characters.
It would seem it is their business so what has Laura got to do with it? Yet giving those adventures more and more thought, the girl realizes that each time she gets in a “movie” situation those surrounding her await for Laura’s active participation – she is supposed to choose a role for herself. In order to be herself.
As she lays Laura ponders – um, to act in order to be herself… But Laura already is acting. And quite successfully at that…
Then WHO is she now?
Saulius Drunga
Born in 1972. Self-taught cinema dramaturge and former punk rocker. Worked with lots of Lithuanian underground filmmakers (as co-writer and consultant). In 2005 one of his screenplays made a good impression on well-known European script editor David Wingate, who recommended author to SOURCES 2 Script Development Workshop which takes place in Potsdam/Germany. There was developed "Anarchy in Žirmûnai" screenplay - winner of New Talent Award at Cannes Film Festival in 2007. The same year Saulius Drunga became gainer of Debut of the Year Prize founded by Lithuanian Cultural Department. Currently he is working - as film director - on two debut feature films: low budget ironic drama "Anarchy in Žirmûnai" and zero budget drama "35 MM".
