
17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.... (Full plot summary below)
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17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
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| Maven's NestNora Lee MandelThe female adolescent love story feels sensuously fresh. . .The beauty of Dominique Colin's gorgeous cinematography swirls with youthful passion and optimism. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisIt’s all very heady and voluptuous, but it’s also painfully superficial. |
| Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAwash 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. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneWriter-director Alanté Kavaité's film is a string of softly weaved pictorial metaphors steeped in reverie. |
| VarietyScott FoundasAt 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 Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaThe Summer of Sangaile is an intimately involving celebration of the fiery passions that accompany pivotal periods of adolescence. |
| Cinemanía (Spain)Daniel de PartearroyoKavaïté portrays the doubts one can have with love at a certain age without forcing any type of drama on the viewer. Not an easy thing to do. [Full review in Spanish] |
| HitfixGregory EllwoodThe film's central conflict and Sangaile's arc's are, unfortunately, thin. |
| Village VoiceAbbey BenderLesbian 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). |
| RogerEbert.comMark DujsikA 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. |