LIFF '09: Let's just drive! Trailer and stills for LOW LIGHTS

This was the big surprise of the 23^rd Leeds International Film Festival for me so far: the UK premiere of Lithuanian director Ignas Miškinis' strange little road movie Low Lights (Artimos Šviesos). The (gushing) review's coming, but for the moment? Beautifully shot and scored, fantastically artistic with limited resources (it is essentially a whole lot of driving around Lithuania's capital Vilnius at night) and quietly, engagingly acted, I've no doubt it won't impress everyone but for me on first impressions it's clearly up there as one of the films of the year. If you like the thought of a kind of strange crossbreed between Chung Mo-Hung's Parking and Song Il-Gon's A Feather then my advice would be to seek this one out at any cost.