Since Otar Left

Brilliant, bloody brilliant, you have to pinch yourself to make sure that you are watching a movie, it was that damn real. It is from the former Soviet state of Georgia, where the son of the family has gone abroad insearch of job. The abroad is Paris and the son in question holds a medical degree and is working as an illegal construction worker in France, but we never actually see the son(Otar) in this movie.

It is a poignant story of his mother, who eagerly waits for her son's phone calls and letters. The other two important characters are her daughter(Otar's sister) and her daughter who shares the apartment with the matriarch in Tblisi. The movie progresses through life and reflections of these three generations of women, the impact of Otar's ultimate farewell on each of them. Julie Bertucelli has composed an everyday poem of breathtaking beauty, proving it once again it takes a woman to make a movie that'll touch every heart it passes through. The actors have played their parts extremely well, the most commendable is Esther Gorintin, the aged matriarch who is so true to life. I just read that she started acting at the ripe old age of 85 and she's still going strong. Whoa!!!