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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
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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
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition section is about to witness a miracle thanks to Tinatin Kajrishvili’s third feature “Citizen Saint,” about small-town miners suddenly discovering that their protector has literally come down from the cross and into their lives.
Kajrishvili, already known to festival audiences thanks to Berlinale titles “Brides” and “Horizon,” wasn’t trying to make a religious film, she states. She was more interested in the power of hope and the lengths most people will go in order to preserve it.
“Georgians are very religious and one day, a guy appeared in my neighborhood, calling himself ‘Saint Nicolas.’ His followers found him an apartment, and they would just stand in front of his house, praying. Whenever he would open a window, or throw a tomato at them, they would just pick it up and consider it as a blessing,” recounts the director, who co-wrote the script with Basa Janikashvili.
Kajrishvili, already known to festival audiences thanks to Berlinale titles “Brides” and “Horizon,” wasn’t trying to make a religious film, she states. She was more interested in the power of hope and the lengths most people will go in order to preserve it.
“Georgians are very religious and one day, a guy appeared in my neighborhood, calling himself ‘Saint Nicolas.’ His followers found him an apartment, and they would just stand in front of his house, praying. Whenever he would open a window, or throw a tomato at them, they would just pick it up and consider it as a blessing,” recounts the director, who co-wrote the script with Basa Janikashvili.
- 7/5/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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