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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Asian March Cinema '26 #12: 🇬🇪 Georgia.

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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭, 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘴.” At most, quite clever. Spirited with charm and whimsy, we move through a collection of stories all adjacent in aims to reach collective consciousness. It’s like a Tati film with a buoyant liveliness. Where Tati looks to stillness and how silliness arises from silence, here, Koberidze looks to the dance of nature. Running water. Leaves in sunlight. There’s a symphony that arises in the wind, how it moves through curtains or creaks doors and windows. But we reach the same kind of subtle humors that arise from circumstance mostly found in Tati’s work. Tati has an architectural approach to building his gags to deliver punchlines but Koberdize collects gestures, a handful of them, to stir humor out of the self. Unfortunately, I don’t think there are enough gestures here to sustain the runtime of the film. You would think character exposition would lay a spine for the rest of the film, but there’s very little to cling onto. Comparably, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/476702745) comes to mind, but it’s through moving through obvious consciousnesses that allows fluidity to shine through. Directly, something more on the lines of Cusk and her character confessions would better pace this film, but all we get is playfulness. Bored playfulness. Bright playfulness. It’s a fun run until we get a bit tired, all but to run again, childlike. Thankfully, there are a great handful of shots and editing techniques that shine through to really create a brisk rush. “𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵.”