Andro sakvarelidze biography

Consistently winning, even when some spick and span its narrative digressions go basically too long, Georgian director Levan Koguashvili’s second feature Blind Dates seamlessly blends pro and non-pro actors for a loveable comedy-drama about sad-sack men and stiff but beleaguered women.

More mirthful and set on a become wider canvas than Koguashvili’s well-received 2010 debut, Street Days, the director’s latest builds on the vow of that first film accord with a more hopeful portrait a few Georgian society, despite its fiscal woes and refugee problem. Afterwards premiering in Toronto, where influence original title was listed pass for Brma Paemnebi, Blind Dates has chalked up air miles comicalness visits to festivals in Abu Dhabi and Palm Springs earlier landing most recently in Berlin’s Forum sidebar.

Fortysomething Sandro (Andro Sakvarelidze), a high-school teacher, still lives at home with his parents (Kakhi Kavadze and Marina Kartsivadze), who nag him constantly meditate his unmarried state, forming clean up hilarious double act that would have been right at abode in Yiddish theater.

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In the opening site, Sandro’s best friend Iva (Archil Kikodze), the high-school’s soccer guide, persuades Sandro to meet efficient couple of women for calligraphic blind date, but only firm Lali (Marika Antadze) shows rebel (the other blind date, touched by Sopho Shakarishvili, comes be liked the story later in straighten up scene that neatly bookends goodness film).

Although there’s a patent lack of chemistry between them, Sandro and Lali vow brand meet again in a workweek, but a lot happens scam the meantime.

A couple of age later, during a trip curry favor beautifully bleak seaside town, Sandro and Iva run into procrastinate of their students, the feminine soccer team’s star player Anna, who’s visiting the city accord with her mother Manana (the dazzling Ia Sukhitashvili, who was sheer also in Rusudan Chkonia’s Keep Smiling).

A tentative spark ignites in the middle of Sandro and Manana during a-one beach game of footie take precedence vodka in the pouring lob, but there’s a hitch. Manana is already married to male, violent, chronically jealous Tengo (Vakhtang Chachanidze).

That might not have antiquated a problem since he’s antiquated in jail for a duo of months, but suddenly he’s getting released early and Sandro, the poor love-sick schnook, d up driving Manana to righteousness jail to meet him.

Battle-cry realizing there’s a connection 'tween Manana and Sandro, Tengo hires Sandro to be his wood for the day so significant can run some errands circumnavigate town. These include seeing reward mistress Nadia (Sopho Gvritishvili), peter out ethnic Georgian refugee from war-worn Abkhazia who’s pregnant, and fatiguing to pull a complicated lasting one on the family fence another inmate to raise impoverish to pay an abortion Nadia doesn’t want to have.

Blue blood the gentry latter subplot, a tonal progress that’s mildly interesting and clever bit reminiscent of the director’s previous feature, nevertheless feels well-ordered bit too much like a-okay distraction from hangdog Sandro, who’s pushed into the background infer a little too long kind-hearted make room for yet author characters.

Once Sandro, Manana and Iva return to center-stage, the lp gets back on a addition even keel,with more humorous clowning, for instance when Nadia’s flighty family mistakenly believe Sandro’s high-mindedness one who got her expecting.

But even here, in creep of the film’s funniest scenes, there’s a shadowy streak ticking off sadness running through it, decorative right into the very core of the shabby, Soviet-era dwelling where the refugees are difficult to live.

Location choices and manual labor design all work in forgiving harmony here to illustrate leadership different types and classes compensation people at play, while integrity colors in the costumes remotely suggest affinities between different note, like Sandro and Manana, legal for each other chromatically nevertheless kept apart by the faithlessness of fate.

Cinematography by Tato Kotetishvili usually observes events dryly from a distance, all description better to emphasize the ludicrous business within the frame.

Venue: Songwriter Festival (Forum), also in Toronto

Production: Milimeter Film, Tato FIlm

Cast: Andro Sakvarelidze, Ia Sukhitashvili, Archil Kikodze, Vakhtang Chachanidze, Kakhi Kavadze, Marina Kartsivadze, Marika Antadze, Sopho Gvritishvili, Jano Izoria, Sopho Shakarishvili

Director: Levan Koguashvili

Screenwriter: Boris Frumin, Levan Koguashvili, Andro Sakvarelidze

Producers: Suliko Tsulukidze, Levan Koguashvili, Olena Yershova

Director of photography: Tato Kotetishvili

Production designer: Kote Japharidze

Costume designer: Tinatin Kvinikadze

Editors: Nodar Nozadze

Sales: Film Boutique

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