Dry Spell: Bareiša Explores Trauma in the Abstract
Repetitive patterns once again provide the narrative parameters reinforcing oblique happenings for Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareiša in his sophomore film, Drowning Dry. A reference to a highly debated non-medical term in which the absence of water in the lungs suggests death occurred before a liquid submersion, Bareiša attempts to construct a family’s tragedy through the fracturing processes of trauma, and thereby suggesting they’re already doomed by the time we’re even introduced to them. There’s also a major subtext on gendered roles and masculine posturing which ultimately catalyze two major events which prove to have irreconcilable consequences.… Read the rest
