Regie:
George SikharulidzeScenario:
George SikharulidzeCamera:
Oleg MutuMuziek:
Chiara CostanzaSamenvattingen(1)
When Sandro’s father decides to devote his life to God and leaves for a monastery, the teenage introvert finds himself deprived of the fundamental certainties of life. Abandoned by his father and his mother, who is working abroad, the young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery, opening up both to a new friendship with the radical Lasha, who has ties with an ultra-right organisation, and also to the chance to explore his own sexuality. George Sikharulidze’s perceptive feature debut considers how fine the line is between the observer and the observed, and asks where contemporary post-Soviet Georgian society is heading as it hovers on the border between religious conservatism and nationalisation on the one hand, and the desire for independence and modernisation on the other. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(meer)Recensie (1)
We know well the magic of having one’s hair washed at the stylist’s. And that it works not only in adolescence. The film portrays timid intimacy in contrast with the physical needs of adolescence in precise, subtle nuances. Surprisingly, however, it doesn’t get into any kind of dramatisation that would make it impressive and memorable. Without a more artful touch, it doesn’t manage to work as a poetic ode to innocence, so it merely remains academically dull. [Karlovy Vary International Film Festival]
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