If I only had to choose one, it would have to be this one. It’s the most beautiful film in my world. It certainly shaped me morally, musically, romantically. Otar made me fall in cinema. I knew him as a child in Russia, thanks to my parents. As he likes making his friends act for him, there I am, aged 17, playing Jean-Pierre Beauviala’s burglar son (Beauviala, inventor of Aaton cameras, of Cantar) in his Favorites of the Moon, and my life fell down on me. I wanted to do what Otar was doing. Make films. Otar the musician, the mathematician… When I later started working on my first short, Otar explained to me with sketches and drawings on a piece of cardboard (that I still have) movements in and out of frame, cuts… I can still hear his voice, like an oracle: “You’re not allowed to use the same shot twice!” It makes you want to go exploring.
(M.A.) Otar Iosseliani
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La Folie Amalric
- Séances
Technical sheet
Georgia, USSR / 1970 / Black & white / 82’
Original version : georgian, russian
Subtitles : english
Script : Otar Iosseliani.
Photography : Abesalom Maisuradze
Editing : Djoulia Bezouachvili
Sound : Tenguiz Nabobachvili
Production : Kartuli Pilmi.
Filmography :
Chant d’hiver, 2015
Chantrapas, 2010
Jardins en automne, 2006
Lundi matin, 2002
Adieu, plancher des vaches !, 1999
Brigands, chapitre VII, 1996
La Chasse aux papillons, 1992
Et la lumière fut, 1989
Les Favoris de la lune, 1984
Pastorale, 1975
Euskadi, 1983
Seule, Géorgie, 1994
La Chute des feuilles, 1966.
- Autres films / La Folie Amalric
