It is natural that when the primary source of the film is literature and new and very popular at the same time, one can't avoid comparisons, and I can say from the very beginning that in this comparison, the film "Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry" (2023) by Elene Naveriani is not a loser. To be honest, I am not a huge admirer of Tamta Melashvili's novel. Many of the things in it seemed to me too constructed, illustrating current ...
Everyone creates a work based on what they know and have experienced, and the plot does not matter. No matter how much they talk, Rusudan Glurjidze's film ”House of Others" (2016) is neither about Abkhazia and its conflict, nor about Abkhazians. This is about the author’s feelings, about the difference caused by a change of your environment, when your lively and bright native city ...
In all the annotations of Giorgi Mrevlishvili's documentary film, "Twelve Lessons" (2019), we come across the statement that "the film tells grandpa Valeri’s story, who lives in Guria and uses various ways to integrate his autistic grandson into society..." etc. Each time we watch the world built by Valery Kotrikadze's love and labor on a documentary screen or in a TV story, we still get the feeling that this world might ...
Georgian cinema is alive, independent and political and it exists in new dimensions judging from few films out of several that have been shot in recent years. Of course, there might have been more, but we cannot replace desire and reality with illusions. Reliable "prolapses" can be taken as a sign of (part of) the new generation of directors – non-banal, not stereotypical, free thinking ...
Georgian cinema has become much more interesting, refined and versatile. Many young and talented directors joined it. Dark, depressive films of the same topic, created at the end of the last century and the beginning of the new one, have moved back. The screen lit up, got colored, the image became sharper, the number of films also increased and they started marching upright in the international arena...
Several quite good documentaries were screened at the 24th Tbilisi International Film Festival. By the jury's decision, Giorgi Parkosadze's film "Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer" (2023) became the winner in the full-length documentary nomination. I will not hide that I was dissatisfied with such a decision. The duration of this movie is 74 minutes, but its director spared no talent and effort to make this time hellishly ...
Dito Tsintsadze is one of the best directors of modern Georgian cinema (despite the fact that he lives in Germany, he makes films in Georgia too). Each of his films is met with special interest by both filmmakers and film lovers. The film "On the Edge" (1993) turned out to be a milestone, very successful one for him, which was invited to various international screenings. At the Locarno International Film Festival, this film was awarded ...
The time is out of joint and so are all other bonds but he was not born to set them right. The "laws of the genre" are also broken and the story falls into a different scheme. Not only were all bonds broken but also the seemingly solid ground was shaken, everything was destroyed; in the country that dreamed of freedom and a bright future, the smell of death slowly ...
აზარტული თამაშები თავს აკარგვინებს ადამიანს. ის აჩრდილივით უკან დასდევს მას და ამოსუნთქვის საშუალებას არ აძლევს. ნარკოტიკივით არის, ერთხელ თუ გასინჯე და მიეჩვიე, მერე გადაჩვევა შეუძლებელია. ლევან კოღუაშვილის ფილმი, „მეოთხე ბრაიტონი“ (2021) გადარჩენისათვის ბრძოლას ჰგავს. თითოეული პერსონაჟი ცხოვრებისა და მისი სირთულეების წინაშე გამართულ რინგზეა, იბრძვის და ცდილობს, თავი გადაირჩინოს. რიგ შემთხვევაში იმარჯვებს, მაგრამ უფრო ხშირად მარცხდება. …
„სამოციანელები“ ეწოდება რეჟისორთა ერთ თაობას, რომლის წარმომადგენლებმაც ყველაზე მეტად მოახერხეს დაპირისპირებოდნენ „მამებს“ თავიანთი ეროვნული, დემოკრატიული ღირებულებებით, თავისუფლებისაკენ სწრაფვითა და ინდივიდუალიზმით. ფაქტობრივად, ქართული კინოს განვითარების შემდგომ ეტაპებზე ვერც ერთმა თაობამ ვერ მოახერხა მათი ჩანაცვლება, მათთან დაპირისპირება, პირიქით, სწორედ „სამოციანელების“ ხელოვნებამ „ასაზრდოვა“ შემდეგი თაობების კინო. ლანა ღოღობერიძე იმ რეჟისორთა რიცხვს მიეკუთვნება, რომლებმაც საბჭოთა კავშირში არსებული ძლიერი ცენზურის …