Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs

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Movie
Original title Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs
Country of production Georgia
Germany
original language Georgian
Russian
Publishing year 2012
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Tinatin Gurchiani
script Tinatin Gurchiani
production Tinatin Gurchiani
music Marian Mentrup
Mahan Mobashery
camera Andreas Bergmann
cut Doreen Ignaszewski
Nari Kim
occupation
  • Teona Bagrationi
  • Ramin Iremadze
  • Eduard Tsikolia

Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs (International English title The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear ) is a Georgian documentary by the director Tinatin Gurchiani . The premiere of the film, which offers an insight into the life and hopes of (mainly) young Georgians, took place in 2012 at DOK Leipzig . It has since been shown at numerous film festivals.

content

At the beginning of the film it is explained on a text board that the director has advertised young people from Georgia between 15 and 23 years old who believe that their lives would provide material for a film, to take part in a casting . People from this age range as well as older people and a thirteen-year-old boy report. You will be asked by the director about your life, your hopes and worries. She follows some in their everyday life. Like the boy who, in addition to attending school, helps with the harvest on his parents' farm. He accompanies his father, who has broken his arm, to the bus that takes him to the hospital. With a borrowed mobile phone, the boy and his mother try in vain to reach the father there. Another person who appears in the film is a young man who is the mayor of a village with 150 inhabitants whose average age is 70 years. A girl, asked by the director what she would make disappear with the eponymous machine, says: herself. She is always tired, is everything, even tired. And yet she has a heartfelt wish: a small cherry tree as a houseplant. Another young woman is accompanied by the director as she confronts her mother, who left her family long ago for a husband. A man whose brother was sentenced to 25 years in prison for robbery and has been in prison for several years visits relatives and acquaintances to encourage them to contact them by letter - including an acquaintance of the brother who only met him once as a young girl , but receives love letters from him. She feels obliged to answer and not to rob him of his hope, although he will spend many years in prison. Towards the end of the film, an interviewee gives a monologue in which he expresses his disappointment with life.

reception

Criticism collection of Rotten Tomatoes listed 14 reviews for the English-language Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs of which turn out 64% positive.

Jeannette Catsoulis described the film in the New York Times as a "sad, strange mosaic of longing - for fame, family or simply for financial support". Cinematographer Andreas Bergmann gives the shabby locations a soft beauty.

For Tim Grierson in Screen Daily , the film moves between “light comedy” and “thorny drama”, although it can seem like a random collection of short stories. Grierson emphasizes the “disarming compassion” that characterizes even the most painful moments, and also praises the cameraman's work (“lively, naturalistic”).

A review by Gary Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times was more skeptical . The film's “frank, pithy” character sketches lack structure and connection with the predominantly “gray, gloomy, poor” world shown. Without an understanding of how the stories really relate to the country and its people, the film makes a "captivating pile of clay that lacks a good sculptor."

Awards

At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , Tinatin Gurchiani received the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary category for Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs . Also in 2013, she received the Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival .

Gurchiani was nominated with Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs 2013 for a VIKTOR DOK.horizonte at the International Documentary Film Festival Munich and for a Silver Eye at the International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava . In 2014 she was nominated for her film at the US Cinema Eye Honors in the categories Outstanding Achievement in Direction and Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jeannette Catsoulis: Baring Their Souls in a Film Audition ( English ) In: The New York Times . August 8, 2013. Accessed February 7, 2016: "(...) a sad, strange mosaic of yearning - for fame, family or just financial relief"
  2. ^ Jeannette Catsoulis: Baring Their Souls in a Film Audition ( English ) In: The New York Times . August 8, 2013. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Tim Grierson: The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear ( English ) In: Screen Daily . March 4, 2013. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ Gary Goldstein: Review: 'The Machine' produces a product that's not quite finished ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . August 22, 2013. Accessed February 7, 2016: "(...) a compelling heap of clay in need of a good sculptor."