Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus … - Alante Kavaite

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There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

Alante Kavaite

Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

Bodies, Focus, Highlighting, Issues, Order, Symmetry

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From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

Adolescence, Emotional, Envisioned, Strong, Writing

I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile teenage beauty. And also the idea that the difficulties that we have to go through help us reveal who we really are.

Beauty, Fragile, Ideas, Journey, Teenage

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

Director, Directors, Female, Want, Women

The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.

Against, Country, Hear, Huge, Media, Strong

About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.

Appreciate, Easily, Firsts, Mistake, Thought

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