
A neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.... (Full plot summary below)
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A neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.
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| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis Lithuanian love story from Kristina Buozyte offers a discomfiting blend of visual ecstasy and narrative sterility. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayPlot and character sketchiness aside, though, Vanishing Waves is incredibly absorbing, because Buozyte and Samper are smart about how sexual urges can override all reason and obligation. |
| Village VoiceJonathan KieferFor those who found Inception too plotty and sexless, Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte's sleek sci-fi reverie is hereby advised. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinWriter/director Kristina Buozyte creates some stunning dreamscapes and puts together the shared-experience sequences with a real freshness. |
| Yahoo! MoviesStaci Layne Wilson...once the conceit is revealed, the attention-span vanishes. |
| User ReviewIgor APhantastic Filmart with very interesting topic, touching story and amazing pictures and sound weaving. |
| User ReviewR?ta Snesakysiu, kad supratau, nes nesupratau. reiktu dar pora kartu paziuret. bet stipru stipru. |
| User ReviewPierLuigi FGood Sci-Fi for the purists. An excellent movie with an intimate Bradbury taste. Tales of souls, of feelings, of sensations. The awesome soundtrack frames perfectly every darn single scene, even when only humming and medical appliance noises are needed. The actors are great and the direction so good that seems to have traveled in time. Even when slow-paced the Drama is built step by step and the whole performance is just so good that makes you feel happy that european movies will still differ from the big garbage can of the blockbuster trend. Visuals are awesome and all the various "oniric" moments fits wonderfully in. Only a woman could direct such an intimate point of view and realize a good movie thanks to the exceptional performance of Jurga Jutaite. If you're a true fantastic-tales lover you should not miss this. |
| User ReviewMike NAlthough there are some parts I personally did not like to much, overall it was a really great original story. |
| User Reviewözkan TA dream, living inside someone else's head. Strongly visual and yet physical in what it represents. But the plot is barely there since the researcher utterly fails to look into the history of the patient. As a three-star, I mean to rate this as a movie that is a good example of the genre, but one has to understand the the genre is "fever dream" and that the explorations are deeply psychological and melodramatic. It does not have wider appeal than this genre. That said, the work of the director and creative designer (co-writers too), produces drawn out moments exploring sex, physicality, insecurity and rage. The decision to place 75% of the screen time inside the shared mind of one of the characters leaves us seeing metaphor and personal history blended into representations of the phantom relationship between the researcher and the patient. Missing here is any sort of investigation of the patient's life by the researcher who is becoming obsessed. Or piecing together moments of imagery into a clearer narrative that the researcher relates to his confidant. These clear paths to a plot were avoided, which I think was a regrettable choice. |