27 Missing Kisses

Germany, Georgia, United Kingdom, France

2000

98 Min

Color

1.85:1

Georgian, French, Russian, English

Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Oliver Damian, Jens Meurer

SCR Irakli Kvirikadze, Nana Dzhordzhadze

CAST Nutsa Kukhianidze, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Shalva Iashvili, Pierre Richard, Amaliya Mordvinova, Levan Uchaneishvili, Davit Gogibedashvili

PROD DES Vaja Jalagania, Teimur Khmaladze, Irakli Kvirikadze, Phedon Papamichael

MUSIC Goran Bregović

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), Rotterdam (Main Programme), Mar del Plata

Synopsis

In a sleepy little town in Russia, a mop-haired teenaged nymphet named Sybille arrives to spend her vacation with her Aunt. Sybille is struck with the overwhelming sense that both her aunt and the town of Krasnyje Utki have nothing to offer her and are down right dull. Sybille soon changes this reality. She falls in love with a man twenty-six years her senior and infuses the little town with her love potion. But Sybille must pay a price – the son of the man she loves is in love with her and will stop at nothing to get her…

Before the season is through, Sybille owes a young man 100 kisses. By the time she leaves, the town will be wide-awake.

Oscar nominee Nana Djordjadze directs this laconic comedy by Iraklij Kvirikadze. Set against a backdrop of absurd and funny sexual complications as can only happen in a slightly bungling Russia, the film paints an intense, tongue-in-cheek picture of a post-soviet reality. –Mongrel Media

Director

Nana Dzhordzhadze

Nana Jorjadze (also spelled Djordjadze or Dzhordzhadze; Georgian: ნანა ჯორჯაძე; born August 24, 1948) is a Georgian film director, scriptwriter and actress.

Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school (1966), and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts (1972). Having worked as an architect in the years 1968-74, she enrolled in the Tbilisi State Theatre Institute which she completed in 1980. She debuted as an actress with the film Some Interviews on Personal Matters in 1977; and as a director with A Journey to Sopot in 1979. Her 1987 work Robinsonada or My English Grandfather was a breakthrough which won her the Caméra d’Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, and both critical and popular acclaim. She moved to France early in the 1990s and directed several films including A Chef in Love (1996) which became the first, and so far the only, Georgian film to be nominated for the Academy Award.

She is married… read more