'Brighton 4th' director Levan Koguashvili sings a polyphonic song — endearingly offbeat and slightly off-key — of hardship and hazelnuts in heartland Georgia just after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Courtesy of Kino Iberica, Venice Film Festival There’s a certain wavelength of hangdog humor that denizens of the former Soviet Republics seem able to tune into at will, and Georgian director Levan Koguashvili more than most. In his fourth feature film, and his first since 2021’s “Brighton 4th” won top honors in Tribeca, Koguashvili’s starkly unsparing perspective on a nation rough-ridden by its recent history is leavened by warm, mordantly funny characterization that gives this throwback, black-and-white vision of post-war division and penury its softer, medium-gray midtones.
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