{"id":2686,"date":"2026-09-05T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/?page_id=2686"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:17:13","slug":"toxic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/en\/programm-2026\/toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lithuania, 2024, 99 min, Saul\u0117 Bliuvait\u0117, Lithuanian
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Gloomy parking spaces, a football match \u2013 a power plant in the background. Nothing feels urban; the city and the countryside are almost indistinguishable. Stagnation takes the place of a coming-of-age. <\/span>Toxic <\/b>depicts the Lithuanian hinterland, from which everyone is trying to escape: the fear of social decline, body dysmorphia that doesn\u2019t stop at the body but is capable of eating away at one\u2019s entire sense of self.\u00a0<\/span>Saul\u0117 Bliuvait\u0117s <\/span>Film is a drama about class dysmorphia and body capital.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

To expire means to be trapped in one\u2019s own reality, to look through the grids of reality at fantasies, to turn around and find oneself once again facing a reality that is so bleak it becomes almost black and white. Sometimes we lose things in the past; sometimes we never had them in the first place. This is precisely what <\/span>Toxic <\/b>shows: in its interweaving of \u2018model\u2019, \u2018body\u2019 and \u2018capital\u2019, it merges three words into one: <\/span>Toxic <\/b>is a poisonous film.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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Parkpl\u00e4tze, ein Fu\u00dfballspiel \u2013 im Hintergrund ein Stromkraftwerk. Nichts ist urban, Stadt und Landschaft lassen sich kaum trennen. Auf der Stelle treten statt <\/span>Coming of Age<\/span>. <\/span>Toxic<\/span> zeigt das litauische Hinterland, aus dem jede*r zu entkommen versucht: Abstiegsangst, Dysmorphie, die nicht beim K\u00f6rper aufh\u00f6rt, sondern das gesamte Selbstverst\u00e4ndnis zu zerfressen vermag. <\/span>Saul\u0117 Bliuvait\u0117s <\/span>Film ist ein Drama \u00fcber Klassen-Dysmorphie & K\u00f6rperkapital.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

To expire means, in seiner eigenen Realit\u00e4t gefangen zu sein, durch Lebensrealit\u00e4ts-Gitter auf Wunschgebilde zu schauen, sich umzudrehen und wieder vor der so tristen, beinahe schwarz-wei\u00df werdenden Realit\u00e4t zu stehen. Manchmal verlieren wir Dinge in der Vergangenheit, manchmal haben wir sie gar nicht erst. Genau das zeigt <\/span>Toxic<\/span>: In seiner Verwebung von Model, K\u00f6rper, Kapital macht er aus drei W\u00f6rtern eins. <\/span>Toxic<\/span> ist ein giftiger Film.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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