Cinema PASAKA Will Offer “A Jar of Jam” to Its Audience
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This weekend, November 21 – 22, the Cinema Pasaka will open a new mysterious corner where the visitors will be offered some gorgeous jam and an answer to the philosophical-existential question ‘What Is Love?’ or… prompted to suggest an answer themselves. The director Ramunė Čekuolytė-Che will bring new life and entertainment to the cinema. On November 23 she will present her first full-length feature film created with minimal budget and without the help of public funds: a drama about love with a romantic title, A Jar of
This film, which was presented during the 5th Druskininkai Theatre Festival and screened during the European Film Forum ‘Scanorama,’ will finally become available to every viewer who wants to see Lithuanian passions. The director has decided to delve into the issue of the love triangle: two charming women love the same man and create a family with him, but one of them still remains a lover, and the man cannot decide what is more important to him and which family is the true one.
“My story is a life situation that happens very frequently. I have heard many stories about betrayed wives and doubting middle-aged men who have lost their confidence and fallen in love hopelessly with young lovers. Children are the ones who suffer most in such situations. I don’t like this. Thus, I wanted to show this story from inside, so that the viewer could judge or justify the characters,” director Ramunė Čekuolytė-Che says.
“Love should be present in every moment <...>. If you lose work and health, love can still inspire you <...>. This is as important as waking up in the morning”. These are quotations from Čekuolytė’s film whose plot line is interrupted by ingenious inserts introducing us to another episode of the film and performing the function of an epigraph before a new exposition. What is love? Can we forgive betrayal if we truly love? Can love simply end? Perhaps, A Jar of Jam will help to answer these questions.
Starring: Edita Užaitė, Romas Ramanauskas, Dalius Skamarakas, Petras Lisauskas, Rasa Marazaitė and others.
The premiere of R. Čekuolytė-Che’s film, A Jar of Jam, will take place in Cinema Pasaka on November 23 at 7 p.m.
