The Lawyer

A Gay/Queer film from Lithuania - a place I never imagined it could come from and it is superb. The two main actors who play the Lithuanian corporate lawyer and the Syrian refugee are both excellent, and their mutual knowledge of English (most of the film is in English) posed no problems for me. In fact, as a long part of the film is set in Belgrade, a sort of no-man's land for them, it seemed to me totally normal that sometimes they stumbled with a word or two. But now a brief and no spoilers account of the story. The lawyer seems a sort of snobbish, sexually arrogant gay man, leading his life almost uniquely among his gay friends. On a website he meets a Syrian man in Serbia. Leaving his comfortable and sometimes callous life, he goes to Belgrade in search of the man he met online. There in a St. Paul of Damascus way he 'finds' his human goodness and does everything in his power, despite obstacle after obstacle, to get the refugee to more understanding country. Eventually he does it his way, and the ending, improbable to some, was heartbreakingly beautiful. As a film it is finely made and each detail counts. If there were superfluous scenes I did not see them, and above all it is an eye opener in that it tackles a controversial subject bravely and I just hope it heralds more films from our Eastern European neighbours. A solid 10 for a very fine film.

At least they find a solution (not very realistic) to end the film, i appreciate that, but like other reviews, this film is not strong enough to built up anything, lack of chemistry, poor connected, no main idea, not a love story but not into others side, there another same subject movie call "No hard feeling" and it very good in everything, if you'd seen it you would known where this film should going.

I watched this movie without knowing anything about it, picking it just because of my favorite actor on the poster. The opening scenes in this movie of friends having dinner were very enjoyable and promising, but sadly it got horribly worse from there. The script is very dull and too theatrical for a movie. I was also not impressed with kind of amature directing that made everything look/feel artificial. Most conversations end up with one character saying something and staring at the horizon and another walking away as if something dramatic of meaningful was said. Even when conversation takes place in a room, where there is no horizon and no reason or place to walk away. A use of red light in romantic scenes felt artificial because of trying to explain every time the "accidental" source of it (like neon commercials outside). These and other similar details left a feeling that you're watching a student made movie. This movie has everything to be great: good topic, wonderful cast, very well picked filming locations, superb musical score. But the script and directing make it a really really bad one.

Couldve been better if the real issue was presented. I fell asleep after 30 mins so i have to rewind and yet still not getting the whole point of the movie. It would be nice to hear them use the Lithuanian language instead of English.. A lot closer to "Label Me" but Label Me was far better and high quality with the direction, storytelling and acting..

I highly recomend! Even though I personally could not recognise a strong central point, but there were many interesting aspects and juxtapositions of a great value In this film. It was a warm film with closely observable and felt feelings and emotions. Sincere.