Dry Leaf Review – 3 hours of roaming Georgia football fields in search of a daughter | Video

Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze seemed to revive the spirit of the French New Wave with his old film. What Do We See When We Look Up at Heaven? – An unsettling, swirling and sinister film with a magical magic of technology as he follows his nose around the city of Kutaisi. His new film is an amazing three-hour road movie, shot (as was his first film Let the Summer Never Come Again) on low-quality footage, like an old-fashioned camera. It is very difficult and I have to admit that it defeated me, despite some interesting qualities, including a dry sense of humor.

A middle-aged man named Irakli (David Koberidze) receives a letter addressed to him and his wife, Nino (Irina Chelidze), from their twenty-one-year-old photographer daughter Lisa, announcing that she wants to run away. A policeman told them that Lisa is a big person who can do what she likes. But the strangely indifferent Irakli begins to follow him, even if a more popular film would have found space to discuss the value of the ordinary policeman. Lisa was painting the football fields when she disappeared, so Irakli’s plan is to drive around the football fields, asking people nearby if they have seen her. The result is a lot of useless discussions with people who are obviously not experts.

It’s Irakli in the car with Lisa Levani’s friend who is… invisible. We hear him. We don’t see him. (The same goes for some of the people that Irakli talks to.) This invisibility creates an additional element of surprise and preparation for the film, which, for me, added and did nothing. As a legitimate experiment, Dry Leaf has its conviction and self-confidence and there is a deliberate, like visual art here: one shot shows us a dry leaf under the tires of Irakli’s car, another gives us wet leaves in a waterfall. The soft, pixelated look, however, is fun and visually stunning, bringing a painted look to the scene.