The director, Julie Bertuccelli - a former documentarist, debuted in 2003 with the georgian/french movie "Since Otar Left". It's a beautiful portray about three generations of women living together, depicted in a down-to-earth and humoristic way.
Otar has left Georgia and the misery, to work illegaly in France, while his mother Eka lives on his regular letters and phonecalls. Suddenly Otar dies, the letters stop, and the two younger generations doesn’t have the heart to tell Eka, so they conceal the truth by writing fictional letters.
You may think this sound like a boring and dull plot, but it surprised me with it’s charm, beautiful character descriptions and everydaylife details. The most pleasant surprise was Esther Gorintin who plays Otars mother Eka with so much life, tacitunity and strength. A solid movie I absolutley would reccomend !
Otar has left Georgia and the misery, to work illegaly in France, while his mother Eka lives on his regular letters and phonecalls. Suddenly Otar dies, the letters stop, and the two younger generations doesn’t have the heart to tell Eka, so they conceal the truth by writing fictional letters.
You may think this sound like a boring and dull plot, but it surprised me with it’s charm, beautiful character descriptions and everydaylife details. The most pleasant surprise was Esther Gorintin who plays Otars mother Eka with so much life, tacitunity and strength. A solid movie I absolutley would reccomend !
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