Review of Crime Drama "In the Clearing Beyond the Forest": Intriguing Plot, but Expectations Were High
Latvian director Reinis Kalviņš's feature film "Klajumā aiz meža" is a crime drama about a teenager's remains found in a bog. The reviewer for LSM's Russian-language service admits his expectations of the director's stated idea may have been too high.
Among new Latvian cinema releases is Reinis Kalviņš's feature film "Klajumā aiz meža", known in Russian as "На поляне за лесом" ("In the Clearing Beyond the Forest"). The picture is described as a crime drama, and a review of it has been published by the Russian-language service of LSM, Latvia's public media.
The reviewer writes that, after reflecting on the film, he realised his expectations of the idea announced by its author may have been too high. At the same time, he stresses that the film's synopsis is extremely intriguing.
The premise
The story begins when the body of a boy is found in a peat bog near a small Latvian town. Soon word spreads that these are the remains of a teenager who went missing 30 years ago.
The review's headline says that even a local lake can swallow a person. The available excerpt of the article does not go into the cast, the production or how the plot develops further.
