Pastorale
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1975 / 95min / DCP
A Tbilisi-based string quartet, seeking a quiet place to practice, light out for a mountain village, taking lodgings with the family of a long-haul truck driver and rehearsing on the house’s veranda as, around them, the daily life of the mountain hamlet continues unabated, albeit to an incongruous soundtrack of classical music. The film that marks Iosseliani’s decisive turn towards tales in which a community—or, at any rate, an ensemble—act as protagonist, Pastorale, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, is a work of marvelously polished little moments, not another stereotyped city mouse-country mouse culture-clash but something far more elusive, more insightful, and ultimately more affecting.
New 4K restoration commissioned by Pastorale Productions.
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Inroduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, August 23rd
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