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17-years-old Sangaile, who is fascinated by stunt planes but afraid of height, meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. A friendship will blossom in the sensuality of summer and it will change Sangaile forever.
1 July 1992, Lithuania
1 December 1957, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
August 20, 2016
The female adolescent love story feels sensuously fresh. . .The beauty of Dominique Colin's gorgeous cinematography swirls with youthful passion and optimism.
November 19, 2015
Dreamy and delicate, trite and oh so earnest, "The Summer of Sangaile" presents a soft-core frolic in teenage Sapphic bliss with the solemnity of a world-shattering event.
November 17, 2015
"Thanks for being you," Sangaile says to Auste at one point. It's a simple statement, maybe a little sentimental, but in this tale of young love, it works.
December 03, 2015
Distractingly lovely to look at, the film can't make Sangaile's struggles or triumphs matter.
October 20, 2015
Awash 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.
November 16, 2015
Writer-director Alanté Kavaité's film is a string of softly weaved pictorial metaphors steeped in reverie.
October 20, 2015
Director Alanté Kavaïté has a unique and talented eye, but she can only do so much to make this compelling material beyond its aesthetic charms.
February 22, 2016
The Summer of Sangaile is an intimately involving celebration of the fiery passions that accompany pivotal periods of adolescence.
July 11, 2016
Kavaïté 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]
October 20, 2015
As sensual as it is lushly shot.
November 20, 2015
It's a movie of lovely surfaces that only alludes to and rarely explores what is happening beneath them.
September 24, 2015
There's something cold about Sangaile.
