“Limousine in Cherry Color: Crime Comedy Set in the Crazy Nineties” – A Film Review

“Limousine in cherry color” is a crime comedy, which takes place in the “crazy nineties”, when everyone had a chance of sudden wealth, the adrenaline was pressure and there were no moral norms. There are three different stories in the short film, and their characters will finally meet.

The film’s director Marcis Pārups says about the story’s characters: “There are two gentlemen in their car engines from Germany, then there is a resident citizen of Vilis with a grandmother from the country, from Tērvete, the grandmother is not a resident citizen at all, it turns out in the end. Then the Greeks and the Gaizins, who run the office, place people at work in Holland, in Holland at that time, and they around right.”

For director Mārcis Pārupas and cameraman Arvi Belovs, it is a diploma thesis after graduating from the Latvian Academy of Culture.

Arvis Belov notes: “We built all this in three or four months, since the script and everything came together. I never thought that I would finish school with a crime comedy .”

Marcis explains that he was scared at first, but the process was very cool: “The main thing is for people to be cool, the rest will follow.”

One of the main roles was assigned to Mudīte, a resident of Āgenskalns, whom the director met on the tram.

“I took the first tram to Ågenskalna, but I got on the wrong one. I shouldn’t have taken the first one, but another one. I guess I decided that. give me a seat .

It is not unusual for professional actors to participate in student films without compensation, as they have also received such help at some point. Actor and director of the Liepāja Puppet Theater Andris Zełonka says: “We have all been students, and we know very well what it is like to do a diploma thesis. If you can help and the times come together, then, in my opinion, well, I don’t I don’t want to promise, but most of the students of the Academy of Culture will go to the students there right now to help.”

Although the creation of the film is supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund and the National Film School, it is not enough, so the team collects donations on the crowdfunding platform “GoGetFunding”. The film’s producer, Rebeka Japiņa, admits: “The costs are high, but they are mainly for filming equipment, driving, materials, logistics, but the entire creative team, technical staff have agreed to work for this project for free.

The work on the set is completed, editing, sound and image processing and getting the university diploma are ahead.

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