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MOVIE REVIEW
\nHow to Divorce During the War<\/strong>
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Genre: <\/strong>Drama, Dark Comedy
\nYear Released:<\/strong> 2026
\nRuntime: <\/strong>1h 48m
\nDirector: <\/strong>Andrius Bla\u017eevi\u010dius
\nWriter: <\/strong>Andrius Bla\u017eevi\u010dius
\nCast: <\/strong>\u017dygimant\u0117 Elena Jak\u0161tait\u0117, Marius Rep\u0161ys, Amelija Adomaityt\u0117, Indr\u0117 Patkauskait\u0117, Gintar\u0117 Parulyt\u0117
\nWhere to Watch:<\/strong> in select theaters beginning August 21, 2026<\/p>\n

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RAVING REVIEW:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0Adults often misunderstand a quiet child for an uninformed one. Dovile watches her parents discuss living arrangements, conceal resentments, contradict their own principles, and pretend that the family remains manageable. She also hears reports of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, observes the adults around her judging one another\u2019s responses, and absorbs fears that no one has explained. Her face becomes an unofficial record of everything Marija and Vytas believe they\u2019re keeping from her.<\/p>\n

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Amelija Adomaityt\u0117 plays Dovile without the forced wisdom frequently given to children in adult dramas. She doesn\u2019t exist to deliver truths that embarrass her parents into self-awareness. Her understanding is incomplete, emotional, and consequently more honest. Dovile knows the household has changed before she understands why. She can identify hypocrisy without possessing the language to describe it, and she recognizes that the world outside Lithuania has become more dangerous even as her own home becomes less secure.<\/p>\n

HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR isn\u2019t only told through Dovile\u2019s perspective, though her presence determines how its conflicts land. Marija and Vytas can dismiss each other\u2019s accusations as the debris of a failing marriage. Their daughter can\u2019t separate the personal anger from global fear. To her, both represent adults losing control while insisting that everything is under control.<\/p>\n

Writer and director Andrius Bla\u017eevi\u010dius begins with an event that would be large enough to support an entire film. Marija tells Vytas that she wants a divorce. The following day, Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, forcing their crisis to continue within a much larger emergency. The timing doesn\u2019t make their pain disappear. It merely makes every expression of that pain feel embarrassing, necessary, selfish, understandable, and absurd at once. The film has also been selected as Lithuania\u2019s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

That contradiction supplies much of the movie\u2019s lighter humor. No one can put a marriage on hold simply because history has become more important. Rent must be paid, children must be transported, work continues, relatives offer unwanted opinions, and one spouse needs somewhere else to live. Marija and Vytas remain trapped inside the procedures of separation while watching millions of people confront losses that dwarf their own.<\/p>\n

Bla\u017eevi\u010dius doesn\u2019t use the invasion to shame them for continuing to care about their lives. Personal suffering doesn\u2019t vanish when someone else suffers more. The criticism concerns what Marija, Vytas, and their comfortable social circle do with that knowledge. Everyone wants to be compassionate. Everyone wants to be seen opposing Russian aggression. The trouble begins when support requires more than a statement, a donation, a volunteer shift, or an opinion expressed among people who already agree.<\/p>\n

The film understands the social appeal of doing good in visible, controlled amounts. Volunteering offers a sense of usefulness. Publicly supporting Ukraine confirms that one has chosen the correct side. Opening a home to refugees sounds unquestionably decent until strangers need privacy, stability, food, patience, and access to the same domestic space that already feels too small for a separating family.<\/p>\n

Bla\u017eevi\u010dius keeps finding the exact point where principle encounters inconvenience. The results are funny because the characters recognize their compromises even while explaining them away. No one announces that comfort matters more than solidarity. They produce practical reasons, temporary limitations, emotional complications, and carefully framed exceptions. Each excuse may contain some truth. Together, they reveal how quickly morality becomes negotiation.<\/p>\n

\u017dygimant\u0117 Elena Jak\u0161tait\u0117 refuses to weaken Marija for the audience. She\u2019s decisive in ways that can appear cold, capable of shifting from legitimate frustration to casual cruelty without announcing the change. Marija has spent years supporting a husband whose creative ambitions haven\u2019t produced stability, and her resentment hasn\u2019t appeared overnight. Her desire to leave makes sense long before every reason becomes clear. Understanding her decision doesn\u2019t require approving of every way she handles it.<\/p>\n

Jak\u0161tait\u0117 lets irritation settle into Marija\u2019s posture and speech. She often looks as though she has completed an argument before Vytas realizes one has begun. There\u2019s fatigue behind her impatience, along with the excitement of believing another life may be available. That possibility makes Marija reckless. Freedom, once imagined, becomes something she feels entitled to pursue immediately, regardless of the disruption left behind.<\/p>\n

Marius Rep\u0161ys gives Vytas a wounded quality that might initially invite sympathy. He\u2019s a struggling filmmaker forced to retreat to his parents\u2019 home, where financial disappointment and generational conflict reinforce his sense of humiliation. His career has failed to develop as expected, his wife no longer believes in their marriage, and the invasion makes his creative frustrations appear especially trivial.<\/p>\n

Rep\u0161ys gradually complicates that. Vytas has learned to treat artistic struggle as proof of seriousness, using disappointment as both identity and defense. He can recognize Marija\u2019s selfishness more easily than his own. His sensitivity doesn\u2019t automatically make him attentive, and his concern doesn\u2019t prevent him from behaving badly when pride takes over. Rep\u0161ys finds humor in Vytas\u2019 indignation without turning him into a joke.<\/p>\n

Neither performance asks the audience to choose a correct spouse. The movie provides enough evidence to defend either person and enough additional evidence to regret doing so. Their marriage hasn\u2019t failed because one of them is good and the other is terrible. Years of unequal expectations, financial pressure, creative resentment, withheld information, and emotional neglect have produced a relationship in which every disagreement carries several older ones inside it.<\/p>\n

Divorce and war are incomparable in scale, but both force people to reveal what they value when familiar structures collapse. Marija and Vytas lose the ability to assume that their household, country, economy, and future will continue operating as expected. One crisis is \u201cchosen,\u201d the other imposed. Both expose weaknesses that were easier to ignore during stable periods. The invasion also enters the film through Vytas\u2019 parents, whose relationship with Russian propaganda creates some of its most uncomfortable exchanges. These scenes avoid treating misinformation as a harmless quirk. Their beliefs affect the people sharing their home, transforming political disagreement into a question of reality itself. Vytas can\u2019t discuss the war with them without also confronting the history, loyalties, and resentments that shaped their worldview.<\/p>\n

Bla\u017eevi\u010dius is especially perceptive about the emotional utility of activism. Supporting a cause can be meaningful and necessary. It can also give people somewhere to place anger that originated elsewhere. Marija and Vytas both attempt to convert dissatisfaction into action. Their motives don\u2019t invalidate the assistance they provide, though the film keeps asking what will happen when generosity stops making them feel better.<\/p>\n

No one receives a moral cleansing. A donation can matter even when partly motivated by guilt. A refugee can benefit from hospitality offered by an imperfect host. A parent can love a child while causing lasting instability. A person can oppose a war sincerely and remain unwilling to surrender much of anything. HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR allows these truths to coexist without flattening them into a lesson.<\/p>\n

Dovile remains the person least capable of controlling how these crises affect her. The adults can choose divorce, volunteer work, political positions, career changes, new relationships, and living arrangements. She inherits their decisions along with the anxiety of a war unfolding nearby. Her observations give the film its quietest form of accountability because she sees the distance between what her parents say and how they behave.<\/p>\n

HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR doesn\u2019t argue that Marija and Vytas should abandon their personal needs because others face greater danger. It asks something more difficult. How much comfort are decent people willing to surrender when their values require it, and how many explanations will they create before admitting the answer?<\/p>\n

Bla\u017eevi\u010dius doesn\u2019t demand some heroic response, only a series of revealing choices. That refusal gives the film its honesty. Marija and Vytas aren\u2019t uniquely hypocritical or unusually selfish. They\u2019re frightened, privileged, caring, resentful people trying to remain recognizable to themselves while every stable part of life shifts beneath them. The discomfort comes from realizing how ordinary they are.<\/p>\n

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