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Parade

2023 · 97 min

A wry, gently absurd comedy about bureaucracy and faith, with a melancholic undertow and a warm human touch.

Directed by
Titas Laucius
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Rasa Samuolytė, Giedrius Savickas, Valentin Novopolskij
Tagline
Some things in life are eternal. Marriage generally isn’t.
Overview
Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.

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Directed by
Titas Laucius
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Rasa Samuolytė, Giedrius Savickas, Valentin Novopolskij
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • faith
  • family
  • identity
  • betrayal
  • redemption
Places
  • small town
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Titas Laucius
Written by
Titas Laucius
Starring
Rasa Samuolytė, Giedrius Savickas, Valentin Novopolskij, Barbora Bareikytė, Asta Zacharovaitė, Juozas Budraitis, Kostas Smoriginas, Pijus Ganusauskas
Cinematography
Laurynas Bareiša
Runtime
97 min
Country
Lithuania
Languages
Lithuanian

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