Vanishing Waves
- Marius Jampolskis: Lukas
- Jurga Jutaite: Aurora
- Rudolfas Jansonas: Jonas
- Martina Jablonskyte: Lina
- Vytautas Kaniusonis Mantas
- Darius Meškauskas: Darius
- Brice Fournier: Thomas
- Philip Lenkowsky: Damien
- Frédéric Andrau: Jaques
- Šarūnas Bartas: The man
Vanishing Waves (AKA Aurora ) is a 2012 film, released drama, which was developed in a cooperative effort of the two directors Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper.
Action
After a long preparation start neuroscientists a spectacular research project. A member of the team, the factual- acting dispassionately Luke, will be networked with the brain of an anonymous, comatose subject and immerse yourself in their world of ideas, but there just watching. Already on the second attempt Lukas meets the very real -looking imagination of a young woman lying wet and unconscious on the beach. While Luke tries to ventilate it, the woman comes to consciousness and begins to kiss him deeply. Follow Passionate intimacies. The surprised and irritated Luke omits his experience over the research colleagues, and claims to have experienced only during the connection shadowy impressions. He pushes for further experiments. Even at the next networking develops between the two a ecstatic lovemaking in an empty, sunlit room. While the spiritual ties between the two always be stronger, Luke closes increasingly towards his colleagues, worried friends and also to his long -time partner Lina, what destroyed the weakened by daily life and routine anyway relationship between the two. Against the rules of the research trial in violation, he takes on real contact with the patient. He finds out that her name is Aurora and in a car accident fell into a coma that her husband did not survive.
The joint meetings are darker, unsatisfactory and overshadowed by the latent presence of another man, who seems to weigh everything and inhibit. Luke, for the spiritual merger with Aurora has long since evolved into an obsession, becomes increasingly aggressive. When he sees suddenly at a meeting next Aurora and talk quietly with her husband, he thrashes desolate at him, climaxing in a bloody violent noise. The real car sound then suffers a cardiac arrest, survives just so and is dying. Now can not and will no longer Luke conceal what he really experienced, and is heavily criticized by the head of the project. Devastated about themselves accepted Luke in his resignation and only asks for a final networking. Luke runs after Aurora in the dark. Sometimes he seems to catch them, sometimes they seem to hasten away to him. After a seemingly endless run he reached eventually. She quietly tell each intimate memories and disappointments of her life. Luke asks car sound for forgiveness. She forgives him and says that he will live. Luke wakes up, after he had to be revived with a defibrillator.
Background and reception
The film premiered on 29 June 2012 at the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary its premiere and was there honored with a Special Mention. On January 4, 2013, arrived in Lithuania in the cinemas in spring then in several European countries and the United States. In September 2013 he appeared in Germany on DVD and Blu -ray.
The film received mostly positive reviews. In particular, the stunning, surreal and imaginative art design of only about 1.2 million Euro production has often been highlighted. It confers the compelling story its special charm. Praise received along with the director and cinematographer pair Feliksas Abrukauskas and composer Peter von Poehl. Critically the performance of the lead actor Marius Jampolskis was considered by some reviewers, as well as too little developed supporting roles.
Many reviewers saw directorial and textual allusions to Andrei Tarkovsky's classic film Solaris, and other science fiction works from the 1970s and 1980s, such as David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick. Further comparisons were made with Tarsem Singh's The Cell, as well as Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her.