Somnambulance

In quite a few ways, Somnambulance plays like a pendant to Georgica. If the latter is set in the period soon after the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union, then the former takes place during the last autumn of independence, in the midst of the Red Army's advance. In a place of raging war, Eewald Avik plays Gottfried, a lonely lighthouse keeper who is visited by his daughter Eetla. Once again, Sulev Keedus manages to craft a work of pure beauty and spiritual depth. Somnambulance has a cinematographic language that is anchored in the tactile quality of the world it's set in, as well as the extremely muted colour palette that seems to consist only of infinite shades of grey, light blues, dark browns and deep shades of black. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)