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BRIGANDS: CHAPTER VII
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This crazy, satirical epic humorously portrays several eras in European          history. Though the costumes and regimes change, the film suggests, the human    motives of lust and greed remain the same. Jumping back and forth in time, the   film condemns its characters to an eternity of irony. In one section, a        medieval king named Vano, who has a penchant for exotic torture techniques,    executes his wife for being unfaithful. Seamlessly the film flashes forward to the early 1930s, with another Vano, played by the same actor, portraying a       low-down thief who suddenly seizes power. Intercut with all of this is the     story of a contemporary Vano, a hapless drunk who wanders across the           underworlds of Europe. This extraordinary film expresses rage against the dark side of human nature that keeps despots in power, despite the upheavals of       history, but it does so with a delightfully comic edge. (FYI, there are no     chapters 1-6). In Georgian and French with English subtitles.                  Otar Iosseliani---France/Georgia---1996---129 mins.
FAREWELL, HOME SWEET HOME
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Otar Iosseliani's comedy of manners follows a wealthy prodigal son (Niko Tarielashvili) as he attempts to discover how the other half lives. As a dishwasher in a local cafe, he woos the owner's daughter and hangs out with an assortment of seedy dropouts, sailors, and thugs. Told in fluidly photographed vignettes, the film is an ode to the fact that "the grass is always greener".  "Impresses with the unpracticed spontaneity of real life" (Scott Tobias, The Onion). In French with English subtitles.                              Otar Iosseliani---France---1999---117 mins.
MONDAY MORNING
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Frustrated by the monotony of life and work in his eccentric hometown in         France, an artist (Jacques Bidou) leaves everything behind and sets off for      Venice for a few weeks of relaxation, painting and smoking cigarettes. While     there, he meets his father's friend (played by director Otar Iosseliani), a    strange old man who injects a bit of humor into his life. Winner of the Best   Director Silver Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival. In French with English subtitles.                                                          Otar Iosseliani---Italy---2002---128 mins.
OTAR IOSSELIANI FILMS
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Four films by acclaimed Georgian filmmaker Otar Iosseliani. The director's contemporary fables of modern life and traditional values have been compared to the classic comedies of French master Jacques Tati. Shrewdly whimsical and filmed with a poetic casualness, Iosseliani's universe is one of joyous pessimism. Includes April (1962, 45 mins.), Falling Leaves (1968,  90 mins,), There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (1970, 80 mins.), and Pastoral (1976, 90 mins.). In Georgian with English subtitles.             Otar Iosseliani---Georgia---1962-1976---305 mins.