Summer Survivors is a Lithuanian film about a psychologist starting as a research assistant at a mental hospital who is asked to drive 2 transferring patients to another hospital. The TIFF programmer who introduced it said it had a unique visual style; that turned out to be a lot of off-kilter, out of focus shots, or scenes where the subject of interest was obscured by something in the way. I guess it was supposed to make you feel unsettled, and it did, but it felt like a cheap, annoying device, used instead of finding a way to make us care about the characters and feel their pain.
This was a really bad movie and I couldn't wait until it was over. I thought that if someone combined the atrocious cinematography of this film with the really annoying soundtrack of Retrospekt, you could come up with the worst film of all time. Tt was definitely the worst film I have seen at TIFF this year.
TIFF 2018 Overview
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