There is an old joke about a pious man stranded on a desert island. As he prays for divine deliverance, a ship arrives, but he sends it away, saying, “God will save me.” Ditto a helicopter and eventually a seaplane. The man dies, to his surprise, and when he gets to heaven, asks God why he did not save him. God replies, “Look, man, I sent a ship, a helicopter and a seaplane…” If the moral of this old chestnut were hewn from the craggy quarries of a benighted Georgian mining village, and carved in strikingly gorgeous black-and-white cinematography, it might look a little like “Citizen Saint,” Tinatin Kajrishvili’s somber, scabrous third film, in which a rural community refuses to accept a God who moves in anything but the most mysterious ways.
Departing from the low-key naturalism of her two prior features “Brides” and “Horizon,” here Kajrishvili moves into an overtly allegorical register,...
Departing from the low-key naturalism of her two prior features “Brides” and “Horizon,” here Kajrishvili moves into an overtly allegorical register,...
- 7/8/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
That the youths of the era seem lost and are not sure at all where they will be going down the line, is a theme that has been repeatedly examined in indie cinema, particularly in countries like Japan and Korea. Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze presents a story along these lines, adding, though, an LGBT element that makes the movie more intriguing, at least with a first look.
A Room of My Own is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Tina has just arrived in Tbilisi from the countryside, and has rented a room in the apartment where Megi lives. Their meeting is bumpy from the beginning, since Tina is only renting for one month, although the listing mentioned at least six, while she seems to have no money on her, as she waits for her boyfriend to come and give her some. This aspect also shows the radical difference of the two girls,...
A Room of My Own is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Tina has just arrived in Tbilisi from the countryside, and has rented a room in the apartment where Megi lives. Their meeting is bumpy from the beginning, since Tina is only renting for one month, although the listing mentioned at least six, while she seems to have no money on her, as she waits for her boyfriend to come and give her some. This aspect also shows the radical difference of the two girls,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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