Favorites of the Moon
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1984 / 102min / DCP
Having relocated to France in 1982, Iosseliani wasted no time in showing the world he hadn’t left his singular gifts behind upon leaving Georgia, taking home the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival for this puckish panoramic comedy about dizzying reversals of fortune and everyday acts of larceny, petty and otherwise. Terrorists, chanteuses, antique dealers, police inspectors, street walkers, and street sweepers all have a part to play in this farcical fable located at the intersection of Dickens and Tati, which follows the circulation of two precious objects—a Limoges porcelain dinner service and a portrait of a Belle Époque–era aristocratic beauty—as they’re passed from one pair of hands to another, and up and down the socioeconomic hierarchy, in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Co-written with regular Polanski collaborator Gérard Brach, and featuring a very fresh-faced Mathieu Amalric in his very first film role.
Distributor: Les Films du Losange
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