Since Otar Left...

Depuis qu'Otar est parti...

France, Belgium, Georgia

2003

103 Min

Color

1.85:1

Georgian, Russian, French

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Julie Bertucelli, Bernard Renucci, Roger Bohbot

CAST Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasouridze, Dinara Drukarova, Temour Kalandadze, Roussoudan Bolkvadze, Sacha Sarichvili, Douta Skhirtladze

PROD DES Emmanuel de Chauvigny

SOUND Henri Morelle

Cannes (Semaine de la Critique): Critics Week Grand Prize, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Edinburgh (Rosebud), Rotterdam, San Francisco, New York

Three Georgian women, strong-willed matriarch Eka (90-year-old former dental assistant and fledgling star Esther Gorintin), her long-suffering daughter Marina (Nino Khomassouridze) and rebellious granddaughter Ada (“Freeze, Die, Come to Life”‘s Dinara Droukarova), all live together in their stately-yet-crumbling apartment in contemporary Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic. Eka pines for her beloved son Otar, a physician who is now a construction worker in Paris. Marina is deeply resentful of her mother’s obsession with her absent brother, while Ada endures their bickering and yearns for a more adventurous existence. When a friend of Otar’s calls with tragic news, Marina and Ada must make a seemingly impossible choice: Do they keep Eka from learning the truth?

Former assistant director to Bertrand Tavernier and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Bertuccelli deftly spins the delicate threads of familial conflict and maternal love into a bewitching tangle of intergenerational duplicity.

diana

25Jun11

really touching. and I say that without any trace of sarcasm.

Diego Uvence

15Jun11

Those great films where love, rupture, nostalgy and hope are captured in one single shot. Moving.

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Ryan Borja

26May11

Thanks MUBI for having this gem! This is one of my new all-time favorites now!

CHRISLNY

25May11

Très beau film d'une grande sensibilité. On a envi de serrer cette grand mère dans ses bras. Vraiment une bonne surprise à découvrir. Beautiful movie with a great sensibility. All the characters have so much truth. Really to be discovered. A beautiful surprise.