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2020·Drama·2h 6m
7.0
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is under attack from an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict is Yana, the wife of the community leader, whose familiar world is slowly crumbling around her. Meanwhile, a detective intrudes on her home with devastating consequences.
Directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili
woman director

Cast

Ia Sukhitashvili
Ia Sukhitashvili
Yana
Rati Oneli
Rati Oneli
David
Kakha Kintsurashvili
Kakha Kintsurashvili
Alex (The Detective)
Saba Gogichaishvil
Saba Gogichaishvil
Giorgi
Giorgi Tsereteli
Giorgi Tsereteli

Crew

Dea Kulumbegashvili
Dea Kulumbegashvili
Director
Dea Kulumbegashvili
Dea Kulumbegashvili
Writer
Rati Oneli
Rati Oneli
Writer
Arseni Khachaturan
Arseni Khachaturan
Director of Photography
Rati Oneli
Rati Oneli
Producer
Carlos Reygadas
Carlos Reygadas
Executive Producer
Guram Navrozashvili
Guram Navrozashvili
Production Design
Stéphane Thiébaut
Stéphane Thiébaut
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Popular Reviews

23 reviews
Jack Sinclair
Jack Sinclair
Beginning
Visually very interesting, requires patience and some knowledge of Christianity as it is very symbolic, at least in my interpretation. There is a 7 minute scene of the main character just laying down that I loved, I can imagine many people being bored with this but I love a film that uses time in a thoughtful manner even if it’s about making you sit in a moment longer than you’d expect. The ending will have me reinterpreting the film a few times over and for that I can only praise it.
Visually very interesting, requires patience and some knowledge of Christianity as it is very symbolic, at least in my interpretation. There is a 7 minute scene of the main character just laying down that I loved, I can imagine many people being bored with this but I love a film that uses time in a thoughtful manner even if it’s about making you sit in a moment longer than you’d expect. The ending will have me reinterpreting the film a few times over and for that I can only praise it.
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Gay Porn
Gay Porn
Beginning
I honestly have no words she deserved so much better some of the most beautiful shots I’ve seen honestly and the fav that it forces you to be a witness of the whole thing makes it more tragic her just having nowhere to go with the trauma that she experienced really breaks me I don’t know there’s so many things to talk about in this movie on which I can’t find words for
I honestly have no words she deserved so much better some of the most beautiful shots I’ve seen honestly and the fav that it forces you to be a witness of the whole thing makes it more tragic her just having nowhere to go with the trauma that she experienced really breaks me I don’t know there’s so many things to talk about in this movie on which I can’t find words for
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Ori
Ori
Beginning
Striking, visually, but too confusing plot-wise for me to really get into.
Striking, visually, but too confusing plot-wise for me to really get into.
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Emm
Emm
Beginning
A veces nos parece que por salir de la forma "clásica" de rodar nos va a hacer destacar, puede que si, pero no siempre de forma positiva, muchas veces en la sencillez es donde reside la belleza.

Todo el film rodado de esta forma "excéntrica" con solo planos frontales eternos, que no té dejan en ningún momento adentrarte en los sentimientos de la protagonista, me ha causado mucho rechazo. Ha sido un duro trabajo de autocontrol no mirar el móvil o directamente abandonar el film.
A veces nos parece que por salir de la forma "clásica" de rodar nos va a hacer destacar, puede que si, pero no siempre de forma positiva, muchas veces en la sencillez es donde reside la belleza.

Todo el film rodado de esta forma "excéntrica" con solo planos frontales eternos, que no té dejan en ningún momento adentrarte en los sentimientos de la protagonista, me ha causado mucho rechazo. Ha sido un duro trabajo de autocontrol no mirar el móvil o directamente abandonar el film.
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Scott
Scott
Beginning
There's two distinct categories when it comes to artsy fartsy movies:

There's the first: engaging and interesting; each moment feels important and engrossing as the ideas convey themselves through the holy medium of cinema.

Then there's the second: an absolute slog fest where each minute turns into torture as you beg for the cut to black to realise you.

This fell into the second category.
There's two distinct categories when it comes to artsy fartsy movies:

There's the first: engaging and interesting; each moment feels important and engrossing as the ideas convey themselves through the holy medium of cinema.

Then there's the second: an absolute slog fest where each minute turns into torture as you beg for the cut to black to realise you.

This fell into the second category.
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