Third feature premiered at Karlovy Vary.
Tinatin Kajrishvili’s black and white drama Citizen Saint about a statue of a saint that come to life in a mining town has been selected as Georgia’s submission for the Academy Awards.
Citizen Saint premiered at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was recently nominated for best film at the 16th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
It marks the third feature from Kajrishvili, whose previous works Brides and Horizon premiered in Berlin in 2014 and 2018, respectively.
Filmed in the oppressive Chiatura mine complex in Georgia, Citizen Saint explores the harsh lives...
Tinatin Kajrishvili’s black and white drama Citizen Saint about a statue of a saint that come to life in a mining town has been selected as Georgia’s submission for the Academy Awards.
Citizen Saint premiered at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was recently nominated for best film at the 16th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
It marks the third feature from Kajrishvili, whose previous works Brides and Horizon premiered in Berlin in 2014 and 2018, respectively.
Filmed in the oppressive Chiatura mine complex in Georgia, Citizen Saint explores the harsh lives...
- 10/10/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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
Of all the classic summer berries — straw, blue, goose, rasp — blackberries ripen latest. That makes them an appropriate fruit for sturdy 48-year-old loner Etero (Eka Chavleishvili) to be reaching for at the beginning of Elene Naveriani’s slyly delightful “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.” But then, further distracted by the other title star, a handsome blackbird, she takes a tumble in to a ravine. It could have killed her. Indeed, there’s a moment where she envisions that it has. She watches as idly curious passersby gather around her body; anyone who has ever imagined their own funeral would be disappointed by this paltry turnout.
One subtle trick of Naveriani’s second feature, making good on the promise of her Locarno-awarded debut “Wet Sand,” is to convey that this near-death experience marks a rupture in Etero’s normal routine, while also establishing the shape of that routine. Perhaps it’s the first...
One subtle trick of Naveriani’s second feature, making good on the promise of her Locarno-awarded debut “Wet Sand,” is to convey that this near-death experience marks a rupture in Etero’s normal routine, while also establishing the shape of that routine. Perhaps it’s the first...
- 6/7/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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