You Am I

You Am I is an enigmatic, contemporary and slow-paced film trip to the untouched beauties of Lithuanian nature and depicts the pretty bearable lightness of being of beautiful and well-off young people. In his second film, Kristijonas Vildziunas floats somewhere between reality and unreality, or reality and fable.
The main character Baron, a young architect, seems to be dissatisfied with what he has in his life and decides to literally build a new existence. This is quite an extraordinary decision as it involves building a glass house on top of a tree in the middle of a pristine forest. He lives there, becoming a part of nature, but does not lose contact with his previous life. There is a party of young people in the dacha he seems to know and Baron joins them in the role of an unnoticed outsider. But he and a pretty young woman do notice and inspire each other. And then there is a writer who appears to have thought this all up.
As dreamlike as reality can be, the film nicely and sensitively reflects the mood of the twentysomethings: young and confused, creative with their lives and looking for that something special - rarely seen in cinema. A fresh and inspiring film that invites creative watching. (LC)