Depuis qu'Otar est parti...
Julie Bertuccelli
Otar has left his native Georgia for France in search of a better life. His mother, sister and niece have stayed at home and keep on with their everyday lives, university studies and casual jobs. When Marina's sister learns of her brother's accidental death, she decides to hide it from their mother, with the complicity of her daughter Ada. They both begin to write false letters from France for a mother who lives in the expectation of news from her son...
With : Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasuridze, Dinara Drukarova, Temur Kalandadze, Rusudan Bolqvadze, Sasha Sarishvili
Screenplay : Julie Bertuccelli, Bernard Renucci et Roger Rohbot
Image : Christophe Pollock
Sound : Henri Morelle
Music : Walter Schumann
Editing : Emmanuelle Castro et Olivier Goinard
Screenplay : Julie Bertuccelli, Bernard Renucci et Roger Rohbot
Image : Christophe Pollock
Sound : Henri Morelle
Music : Walter Schumann
Editing : Emmanuelle Castro et Olivier Goinard
Production : Les Films du Poisson, Entre Chien et Loup
Distribution: Haut et Court
Distribution: Haut et Court
With her first fiction, Julie Bertolucci, who up to then had made documentaries, films absence with astonishing sobriety. Without falling into sentimental rhetoric, she never stresses the feminine condition in this changing society with these three women already burdened by a heavy secret. "Here it is not a question of truth or lies, but of systems of belief, of need, of the possibility of making the world match desires, an imagination which is constructed, exchanged, constantly remoulded" (Jean-Michel Frodon).