The kind of film you give the backhanded compliment "Shows promise." The director was young, it's her first film, and if she dropped the show-offy (Art Film 101) stuff and found something she really needed to say - there's certainly a powerful film to be made from the conflicts in the Caucasus that followed in the wake of the Soviet collapse, but this isn't it - she might amount to something.
Review of The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse
(2006)
Just released by Second Run including Saakyan's short film "Farewell".
16 September 2020