2014 · drama · poetic
Corn Island
Directed by Giorgi Ovashvili1h 40m2014
The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.
Our read: Corn Island (2014) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama · poetic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / poetic, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- signature
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