What unites them all, the only interest they all share, is money. His first feature length film is tzameti, won the world cinema jury prize for a dramatic motion. Join facebook to connect with gela babluani and others you may know. Its unwieldy dual title aside, tzameti is the better film, though not quite the finished article. Son of a major georgian director, gela babluani is a talent to watch. He is the son of the prominent director temur babluani. First time director, gela babluanis film, shot in stark black and white, has deservedly won several prestigious awards, including the grand jury prize at the sundance film festival. Moneys money cleveland international film festival. We worked hard to enhance your user experience and bring you a modernized version of the premier network for film professionals. He ends up in an underground room where mysterious people place bets on other mens lives. G iven the renewed interest in georgian cinema in recent years, it is striking that the work of temur babluani and his sun of the sleepless in particular have largely eluded the attention of western curators and programmers alike. Unlike the original film in which babluani also stared, this time the film had a lot of known hollywood actors and it. Momas ambitious 45title retrospective discovering georgian cinema 20142015 for instance, curated by susan oxtoby and organized in.
Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. By continuing to use this website, you agree to the use of cookies in order to offer you content and services that are tailored to your interests. A highconcept suspense picture set in france but centred on a young georgian immigrant, this is very potent if ultimately rather hollow filmmaking. Temur babluanis the sun of the sleepless udzinarta mze. Georgianfrench helmer gela babluani, who made his englishlanguage debut with sam riley starrer, is to helm detroitset money is. To repay part of his debts, he decides to burglary a house to retrieve a.
The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside. In a workingclass neighborhood in le havre, a man raises his daughter alone and encounters many financial worries. Il est en competition au 10e festival du film francophone dangouleme. At 17 years of age, he and his three siblings were sent to study in france. His first feature film tzameti won the world cinema jury prize at the sundance film festival. Though gela babluanis debut is lean, hard, and savage as a starved doberman pinscher, its a film i might never have seen of my own. Following in the tradition of japanese and some fellow european directors, frenchgoergian director gela babluani is upping stumps to the states to shoot a remake of his own film, tzameti. We have a little update on the upcoming gela babluanis, and im sure youre going to love it after all, we have a great cast involved in this englishlanguage remake of the 2005 french movie tzameti in case you forgot, alexander skarsgard, sam riley, jason statham, curtis 50 cent, jackson. Consistently excellent actors like ray winstone and michael shannon perform alongside the wooden. Im sure you all remember this project, and thats exactly why were here today. In todays society, there is an increasingly bigger gap between different social classes.
With several extraordinary scenes, not for the fainthearted, tzameti is less shocking for what it shows than for its portrait of the amoral world it so convincingly captures. Welcome to a platform where professionals can meet and exchange information and ideas. I feel that its getting worse, and that people like the politician in the film no longer have any idea about how the other people live. Description adapted from the film society at lincoln center. Gela babluani, the georgianborn director whose 2005 debut feature tzameti announced the arrival of a serious new talent, returns to the noir genre with money, a heistgonewrong thriller that. The viewers surrogate played by the directors younger brother is a guy we dont know much about hes an opportunistic contractor whos about to be stiffed for services rendered, so he steals his employers invitation to.
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