Vanishing Waves

Saturday, November 16
Midnight
Vanishing Waves

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2013 / Lithuania, France, Belgium / Lithu- anian, English, and French with English subtitles / 124 min / DCP
Director: Kristina Buozyte
Cast: Jurga Jutaite, Marius Jampolskis, Brice Fournier
Print Source: Artsploitation

Vanishing Waves is a romantic science fiction thriller set within the netherworld of the human mind. Lukas is a subject in
an experiment meant to explore the depths of the unrevealed psyche. Hooked up to machines and lying in a sensory deprivation tank, his consciousness floats disconnected as he enters the mind of a comatose patient. Here he meets Aurora, a woman who lies in a coma in a hospital somewhere. It’s Lukas’s job to be unobserved and record the activity in the patient’s brain, but this is the first rule he breaks. Aurora is alluring, and upon first meeting Lukas in her mind-encased world, she greets him with a long kiss. From then on they carry on a surreal sexual relation- ship in which boundaries are meaningless. When Lukas finds himself falling in love, he knows he has to find Aurora and revive her before the reality of life comes crashing down. Influenced by films such as Inception and Altered States, Vanishing Waves pulls the audience into a sexually charged, cerebral dreamscape that’s engrossing and hard to forget. Frank Scheck of The Holly- wood Reporter says, “Vanishing Waves has a haunting, hallucinatory pull that effectively makes the viewer feel as if he’s entered a dreamlike state himself.”