Empty

Tühirand

Estonia

2006

40 Min

Color

Estonian

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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CAST Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa, Maarja Jakobson, Mirtel Pohla, Juhan Ulfsak

ED Jan Erik Nõgisto, Mart Taniel, Tambet Tasuja

A young intellectual, Mati, engineers himself into a situation where he has to spend a weekend with his wife Helina and her lover Eduard. The trio goes to Eduard’s summer house, surrounded by the majestic scenery of big forests and an empty beach. Mati, either out of jealousy or pride, has decided to win back his wife and will do anything his introverted and inert mind can come up with. What is love? Who can believe in such a thing? Is there anything at all to believe in? It can in its own minimalist way be a very funny experience and also a sad one to be dragged into this world. This film depicts with great accuracy how it is to feel love being an Estonian, someone who is used to low temperatures and repressed emotions. –IMDb

Director

Veiko Õunpuu

Veiko Õunpuu (born March 16, 1972 in Saaremaa) is an Estonian film director and screenwriter who is best known for his artistic movies Autumn Ball (Sügisball, 2007) and The Temptation of St. Tony (Püha Tõnu kiusamine, 2009). Õunpuu’s films are usually slow paced artistic movies with eccentric characters. In 2006 he wrote and directed independent short film Empty (Tühirand). In 2007 he adapted Mati Unt’s novel Autumn Ball (Sügisball) that won Horizon Award in Venice Film Festival and is still the highest international recognition Estonian film ever had. In 2010 Õunpuu’s second feature drama The Temptation of St. Tony (Püha Tõnu kiusamine) screened in Sundance Film Festival. The film was selected as Estonia’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn’t make the final shortlist. —wikipedia