THE STORY OF A GOOD MAN'S GOOD NATURE

თინათინ და ხვიჩა ემირიძეების დოკუმენტური ფილმი, ,,რესპუბლიკა“ 2021 წელსაა გადაღებული, მაშინ, როდესაც მსოფლიო პანდემიის სრულ იზოლაციასა და ახალი კატაკლიზმების მოლოდინში იყო… თუმცა, როგორც ყოველთვის და არა მხოლოდ მაშინ, კატასტროფის მოლოდინი, ჩვეული რამაა, ჩვეული დამძიმებული გარემოსთვის. და მაინც, ,,რესპუბლიკის“ მთავარი გმირი, ამ ჩვეული სამყაროს არაჩვეულებრივად მოფიქრალი შვილია, ალბათ, ერთ-ერთი იმ სადღაც შემორჩენილი ადამიანთაგანი, ვისაც ახსოვდა თაობების …

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MZIURI FROM GEORGIA

„მზიური“, რომელიც საქართველოს საბჭოთა წარსულისა და, ამასთანავე, ამ წარსულიდან გამოყოლილი სტაბილური ყოფის ასოციაციას ქმნის, ქეთევან მაჭავარიანის დოკუმენტური ფილმის (2020) სათაურიცაა და მისი მთავარი გმირის სახელიც. არაფერია განსაკუთრებული ამ კარდაკარ სიარულის პრაქტიკაში, რომელსაც ეს პერსონაჟი, მზიური გოგიჩაიშვილი სხვა, მისი კოლეგების მსგავსად, ყოველდღე შემართული ეჭიდება. აღსანიშნავია, რომ აღნიშნული ფილმი რამდენიმე პრიზის მფლობელი გახდა და მასში მთავარი ის …

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LESSONS OF PLACIDITY - HOW TO GAZE THE MORNING...

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 ...

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WINTER DEPRESSION WITH SUMMER ILLUSION

As interesting and different as it is to depict existence while focusing on the realistic origins of cinema, so different is the essence of detailed existence for any director. It might turn into an effect of delight or at least a desire to comprehend a new world – that's how it might appear from the director's viewpoint... However, this is only a supposition. Plot motifs of the desire to perceive oneself, which are the concern of filmmakers of all generations ...

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ANNOTATION OF ONE DESTINY OF MANY SOULS

Georgia of 1980s and 1990s gave birth to many interesting and, at the same time, such fates in the generation of "underground" musicians and artists, which caused a fearful thought even when looking towards the future. The main character of Keko Chelidze's film "Dead Souls’ Vacation" (2020), musician Levan Svanidze is one of those who found illusory peace in time and emptiness. The interest in the 45-year-old musician, who is actually unemployed...

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WORLD HEROES BOUND BY THE BURDEN OF FREEDOM

One of the biggest strangeness of the modern world existance, which at the same time is difficult to accept, is a tolerant-minded society which is obsessed with the complex but can do nothing to adapt to the inevitable truths of life. The film "Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry” (2023, dir. Elene Naveriani) is a screen adaptation of the story of the same name. In general, depending on the tradition of screen adaptation, the audience looks for a "new vision" or subtexts ...

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A Simple Story of Loneliness that Disappeared Somewhere

Is there such an interpretation of disagreements between generations in Georgian art, in particular, dramaturgy, cinema, as Gertrude Stein's search for the explanation of the creative realities and psychotypes of the "lost generation"? This is still controversial and will probably take decades but it is clear that more than (or already) 30 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet system and the somewhat illusory vision of the "lost generation"

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BRIDES IN THE VOID

Even the most unusual forms of the illusion of mood characteristic of a feature film, obey the firm conditions of reality-regardless of the quality of what color and compositional experimentation we are talking about. Even in the most extreme forms of convention, the basis of the compositional nature of light and shade and color is reality - even in the most extreme expression of surrealism to realism.

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SORROWFUL IS THE TIME WITH THE PARADE

If the tradition of Georgian cinema repeats itself thematically and develops artistic-thematic interpretations interestingly, then this refers to the versions of man's search for himself most clearly and obviously; dysfunctionality, or adaptation and spiritual crisis that originate in the themes interpreted by the 1960s continue for decades. They find various manifestations - in the Georgian cinema of the 1980s-1990s, 2000s and of the most recent period.

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FADED SUN IN THE CONFLICT ZONE

The image of injustice spread in the colorless space of modernity seems to be perceived as a biblical generalization of one villager, if we create a true story of happiness, philanthropy and oppression of truth. The feature film of director and screenwriter Beso Solomanashvili, "Vegetable Garden in the Conflict Zone" (2021) depicts the tragedy of the 2008 war. In all its essence, such concrete and dramatic, human misery seems to be easily generalized if we find an artistic equivalent, as the author of the film was able to do.

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