51 minutes to fall in love with a summer that never ends.
The story of a young art student who goes to the countryside for a summer internship in watercolor and rents a room in a house by the sea. Conversations with an old housekeeper and meetings with an initially somewhat fussy and naive girl draw one summer in the life of a young man. Whether it's a girl's going to university, meetings with people from a beach village, or an old woman's reminiscences of past times, something about these topics has an enlightening effect on the young man. At the end of summer, a young man's eye and weather view is brighter and wider. It is a lyrical and tender story of the beginning of young love and the life experience of a fading Estonian generation.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like the watercolor it's about.
Writing
Dialogue that breathes—conversations you eavesdrop, not hear.
Score
Soundtrack of Estonian summer: wind, waves, silence.
Director
Virve Aruoja
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Soviet thaw, it's quietly radical—a personal Estonian story when national identity was officially suppressed.
Director Virve Aruoja was one of Estonia's first female filmmakers; this was her thesis film, shot when she was just 24.
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