Locarno Competition Entry Explores the Impact on Teenage Girls of a ‘Toxic’ Culture: ‘I Wanted to Make This Film Very Fleshy’

Showing in competition at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, writer-director Saulė Bliuvaitė’s debut feature “Toxic” is a hard-hitting coming-of-age story which eschews the cliches as her 13-year-old protagonists come to terms with their bodies and identities one hot summer in Lithuania.  Marija (Vesta Matulytė) and Kristina (Ieva Rupeikaitė) are two young girls who form a friendship […]