1929 · comedy · silent · georgian
My Grandmother
Directed by Kote Mikaberidze1h 5m1929
The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother"
Our read: My Grandmother (1929) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy · silent · georgian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / silent, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- surreal
- signature
- funny
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