Tright here’s a stressed, bustling nervous vitality to this Georgian film from 1978; it’s a romantic comedy of manners from director and co-writer Lana Gogoberidze with a freewheeling type of New Wave really feel, set in a metropolis for which the time period Swinging Tbilisi isn’t fairly proper, however definitely a busy, trendy place for busy, trendy folks.
Georgian actor Sofiko Chiaureli, recognized for her collaborations with Sergei Parajanov and an icon for her look in his The Color of Pomegranates, performs Sofiko, a high-powered newspaper interviewer, recognized for her sympathetic “human curiosity” items that includes peculiar girls telling her about their lives. Sofiko is all the time dashing about city in her waterproof coat and quizzical glasses (which make her look a bit like Isabelle Huppert) accompanied by dishevelled photographer Irakli (Janri Lolashvili), who could also be in love together with her.
Sofiko loves her demanding job and doesn’t a lot thoughts all of the readers who pester her for assist with all the things. However she has troubles: her boss needs to maneuver her to a different place on the paper: the “editorial secretary” comes with the next wage however no glamorous interviewing – a job which, as he pointedly remarks, will depart Sofiko extra time for her household, which contains her ailing mom, who lives with them, her two boisterous youngsters and a husband, Archili (Gia Badridze), who's dishonest on her. Sofiko’s hectic life, which Gogoberidze reveals us is stimulating and miserable on the identical time, is interspersed with setpiece fragments from her interviews and unusual flashbacks: she remembers a lady livid at her straying husband immediately panicking when Sofika supplied to write down an article “outing” him.
She has found her husband’s infidelity from glimpsing him meet one other girl within the metropolis centre, and this film curiously resembles Coppola’s The Dialog, in that it's about somebody eavesdropping on different folks’s lives whereas additionally eavesdropping on her personal. There are pleasingly surreal, poignant bursts of poetry within the dialogue: considerate Archili notes that animals are slim and wholesome as a result of they should stroll in all places, and concludes: “The twenty first century shall be a pedestrian century.” He additionally muses: “Apparently ants can fly, however solely after they’re in love.” This film is itself typically airborne.
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