How to Divorce During the War

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OCOpen Captioned
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Cinema Studies

How to Divorce During the War

Opens September 11

Vilnius, 2022. High-flying executive Marija (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) chooses the worst possible moment to inform her husband Vytas (Marius Repsys) she wants a divorce: just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Suddenly the couple must navigate the process of separation as it collides with a refugee and mid-life crisis. As the reason for the divorce gradually becomes clear, the dissolution of Marija and Vytas’ marriage creates conflicts and opportunities for both of them, while also affecting their ever-observant young daughter Dovile. Packed with surprises along with much heartache and soul searching, Andrius Blaževičius’ nuanced and timely family drama skillfully depicts the fallout of a marriage against the backdrop of extraordinary events with humor and compassion.

"It’s a matter-of-fact, often caustically funny account of individuals muddling through private disasters in the shadow of a global one."
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
"Both empathetic and surgical as it examines both partners’ attempts to sublimate selfish angst into social activism... It’s left to viewers to decide if these are good people reacting in human, erratic ways to bad times, or if there’s something more insidious in the compromises and hypocrisies that Marija and Vytas decide they can live with."
Guy Lodge, Variety


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