For the first time in the history of Georgian film, the portal of Georgian film criticism.
The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth of Georgia.
Overview of Georgian Film
The platform Georgian Film Review is dedicated to an overview of modern Georgian film, its
features, trends, major aspects, and new movies; however, the reader will also find some materials from the history of Georgian film and also the best reviews developed in the early years by the film critics of the older generation.
Professional and student film critics are involved in the working process of the website, whose analytical articles regarding Georgian professional and student feature, documentary, and animated films will greatly contribute to the refinement and development of our film criticism as well as the popularization of the Georgian national film.
The website is bilingual, in Georgian and English, in order to provide desirable and proper information for both local and international movie fans.
Studying chess not as a sport but as an indicator of intellectual resources that exist in itself is one direction, but the quest for people’s personal portraits associated with it as well as the history of our country's transformation into a chess phenomenon is another direction in today's world. Today, we face and perceive a reality from all sides, where the saying "the smash of authorities" is declared a primitive goal in itself.
In the country that has turned into a chess phenomenon, where women have held the world championship in professional chess for decades, no one is surprised today how people struggling with misfortune use these names as a target for their own aggression or insults. This is part of the primitive everyday life of modernity - after ...
The famous American writer Stephen King wrote in his 1982 short story, "The Body:" "“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out." Stephen King's mentioned quote can be connected to the nature of cinema as a medium. The valuable aspect of cinema is that it allows people to visually express their own feelings and experiences, things ...
“Namme” (2017) turned out to be a real success in modern Georgian cinema. This film received a rare response and love from the audience. It became an unexpected surprise for the Georgian moviegoers. This film became a vivid example of what an interesting script, the right direction of this script and the diligence of the film crew can do.
Zaza Khalvashi, who is the director as well as a screenwriter of the film, offers us a free adaptation of a mythical story. This is a legend about a girl with supernatural powers who...
It is common knowledge that Georgians were pagans before Christianity spread in Georgia. There were many deities, idols, traditions, and prayer rituals that people diligently served and performed. However, pagan traditions were not forgotten completely after the spread of Christianity. Small rituals and spells that have been with people since their ancestors’ time in certain villages or regions of Georgia have survived to this day.
Iberian-Caucasian mythology combines the pagan beliefs of those peoples who inhabited the North Caucasus and part of the South Caucasus. The deities ...
Along with the statement on dramatic plot, there is a problem of dramaturgical completeness in the recent period of Georgian cinema, which can be explained by several types of reasons: the absence of the narrative and the artistic vision coincidence; something that deprives a sense of reality to the voice; what hinders the narrative from developing in itself - the suddenly discovered, less organic metaphors between the tasks of the actor and the director.
“Memento Mori” (2022) is a short feature film directed by Giorgi Kadagidze and the sad dramatic story of its main characters includes a small dramatic story found on the verge ...
“Your father has Alzheimer’s disease. It doesn’t matter who takes care of him. He doesn’t even remember that you are his son…” – this is what they say to Nader, the main character in Asghar Farhadi’s moving drama, the Oscar-winning Iranian film “A Separation” (2011). The man, who does not leave his sick father and cries like a child while bathing him, replies: “But I remember that he is my father…” It is possible that once in a thousand, Nader’s willpower may fail and an undignified thought may cross his mind regarding the care of his father but despite all this...
What is the most important thing in the process of creating a film? The script, the direction, the visual solution, the musical score or the acting? Each of these components has its own meaning and value but their synthesis, their combination creates a work that we call cinematic art. There is no insignificant detail in the world of cinema. Every element is important, starting from the composition of the shot, ending with a single movement of the character’s eye in the scene.
This is the reason why it is especially important...
Time passes quickly and destroys everything slowly. It is like a train that you have to chase. Those who cannot catch up are lost and cannot continue living. This pace is faster for artists. They always try to find something new and to interest society again. What happens when life does not go according to their wishes and when swimming against the current stops? After several attempts to survive, everyone gives up and follows the current of the river.
People give up and stop developing. How difficult it is to watch a ...
Independent film is very popular in the modern cinema, which is an important part of modern art. Georgian film directors also try not to lag behind this trend and create extravagant works one after another. An example of this is Giga Liklikadze's film, "Pig" (2019), which caused a great response. The majority of viewers evaluated it negatively, however, there were film critics who saw something unidentified and profound in it, thus considering the film the beginning of a new direction.
This film is about three young people (Bachana, Ramo and Makho). Bachana, who was...
People experience love shortage. They spend their entire lives in quest of their other half - sometimes they find it, sometimes they don't. When a relationship goes into a dead end, there begins the process of looking for the culprit within themselves but seldom is only one party to blame for the split up. The problem is that mistakes are often not corrected - they are only repeated, and this is reflected in new relationships, and an endless movement in the circle begins. When does love come and how long does it stay? This is an eternal question and has different options to answer. It all depends on the person’s perception. For some, this feeling does not exist, and for most, it interferes with longing and habituation.
Most of modern Georgian cinema is
