Synopsis
In the Georgian mountains, a family oversees a healing spring for the local village. When his sons leave home, the father entrusts the work to his daughter until something strange happens in this modern-day fable.
2017 ‘ნამე’ Directed by Zaza Khalvashi
In the Georgian mountains, a family oversees a healing spring for the local village. When his sons leave home, the father entrusts the work to his daughter until something strange happens in this modern-day fable.
In the Georgian mountains, an old man oversees a healing spring for the local village. The old man would like one of his three sons to continue the tradition, but they are uninterested and the gifted one seems to be his daughter, Namme, but is this what she wants to do with her life?
Stunning. A lot of thought went into camera placement in this film, which resulted in some unusual angles and always beautiful shots. A gorgeous photo book could be made from this film. The establishing shot is a large white carp in a small black bowl sitting on the ground surrounded by fallen leaves being dusted by falling snow. The sound design is also very organic with…
An excellent piece of slow cinema whose most notable quality, as others have noted, is its cold but sumptuous photography. While it's the environment itself that provides most of the raw material of the film's beauty — it remains incredible to me that Georgia has not yet become a prime filming location for big-budget fantasy and historical productions — it is Giorgi Shvelidze's precise and exacting composition of that material, and a seemingly supernatural conjuring of the most aesthetically perfect weather (i.e., a great deal of expert timing and incredible patience) that lends the film such an extraordinary, otherworldly look.
My few reservations revolve around the tension between the film's very tactile realism and some of its more mythical, folkloric…
A slow story with carefully framed shots about a girl who is destined to be a healer, but is not sure if this is what she wants to be in life...
Beautiful film that is very interesting when it is saying something but unfortunately doesn't do that very much making it feel far too long with a lot of unnecessary padding.
Atmospheric and occasionally striking Georgian film, full of local colour, but admittedly dry and slow.