Age limit: N-13. 7-12 years old children must be accompanied by an adult.
Genre: Drama
Year of release: 2024
Duration: 80 min.
Film language: English
Subtitle language: Lithuanian
Sisters Liepa and Rugsėja and their mother, photographer Šyla, live in their own little world of their own creation, full of art, strange costumes and worms grown in an aquarium. Teenagers have their own language, signals, rules, what can and cannot be done. The never-separated girls are true opposites: September is combative, distrustful, always ready to defend Liepa, who is bullied at school, naive but open to the world and new experiences. When September is suspended from classes, Liepa slowly begins to explore the limits of her independence. Tensions rise when the whole family moves to an old holiday home in Ireland, where Liepai will have to answer the question of how far she is willing to go and what she will sacrifice to keep the special bond between her and her sister.
Ariane Labed, the Greek-French actress who directed the film, began her career with memorable roles in the uncomfortable, darkly humorous and absurd films of her husband Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari. "September Says" is her feature directorial debut, based on Daisy Johnson's contemporary gothic novel "Sisters", in which the director gently flirts with the tropes of Greek Weird Wave films, but also offers a unique look at the complex microcosm of a family, where love is inseparable from power games and manipulation, and independence comes at a very high price. The premiere of the film took place in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival "Special Look".
September Says | Directed by Ariane Labed | Starring Pascale Kann, Mia Tharia, Rakhee Thakrar | Duration 80 min. | France, Greece, Ireland, Germany, Great Britain, 2024 | English language, Lithuanian subtitles, translated by Jurga Vilė | N-13
The film is part of the PURE SOUL programme
The films of this program tell about people with open and sensitive souls. Maybe they are not noticeable, but they are the real everyday heroes. They are haunted by the traumatic effects of war, they are called "different", but they are the great humanists who are able to see humanity in others, even if they are broken. These sensitive films are made by young directors - pure souls, not yet tainted by the film industry.
https://www .youtube.com/watch?v=I_F3hpTvGNw On the AllEvents portal you can always Buy tickets to an event Cinema LLŠ24: Rugsėja sako, Kaunas, Forum Cinemas Kaune October 12
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