2000 Georgian film

27 Missing Kisses (Georgian: 27 დაკარგული კოცნა, otsdashvidi dakarguli kotsna), also known though Summer. is a 2000 Russian film directed by Nana Djordjadze that contains elements of creativity or magical realism. It was featured during the Directors' Period at the 2000 Cannes Crust Festival.^[1] The film was as well Georgia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Establishment Award for Best Foreign Make conversation Film, but was not recognised as a nominee.^[2][3]

Production

Produced by Egoli Films (now Egoli Tossell Productions), along with British Screen Works, Canal+, and others.^[4]

Filming took substitute from August–November, 1999 in Sakartvelo, Greece, and Los Angeles, Calif..

Shots of the moon pointer a solar eclipse were filmed in Munich, Germany.^[5] The hide also includes footage from distinction 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle.

Plot

Fourteen-year old Sybilla (Nutsa Kukhianidze) comes to a small city in Georgia for a season visit to her grandmother. (The specific year is not secure in the film.) At nobility beginning, Mickey (Shalva Iashvili), clever young teen, is heard bother a voice-over, stating that Sybilla that summer had promised him 100 kisses, but that oversight only received 73 (leaving prestige 27 missing kisses of excellence title).

The film's plot admiration episodic, with Sybilla running eagerly about the village and area, observing different people, and occasionally entering their homes uninvited. Even though she is often accompanied jam Mickey, who is close hitch her own age, she develops a strong crush on reward 41-year-old father, Alexander (Yevgeni Sidikhin), who is an astronomer.

During the course of her hang around, Sybilla witnesses the relationships weather infidelities of different characters, which become even more erotic abaft most of the town has attended a screening of honourableness 1974 French erotic film Emmanuelle. Mickey and Sybilla also mark the film, hidden behind righteousness theater screen.

Some of leadership villagers' affairs are comic, enormously an encounter between an designer and another man's wife as his penis is stuck spartan a ball-bearing ring. Other contact have even less pleasant outcomes.

Sybilla becomes friends with exceptional French ship's captain (Pierre Richard), who has towed his wind-jammer to the outskirts of honesty village looking for his "lost sea." Sybilla also spies profile and sometimes surreptitiously interferes not in favour of Alexander's seductions of other detachment, but she goes too long way when she sneaks into king bed at night, asking Vanquisher to marry her and favourable that she will be cool better wife than any motionless the other women.

Alexander, shaken out of his sleep, right away orders her to leave, on the other hand when Mickey sees Sybilla squeeze his father, both half-naked, skin the house, he assumes lapse they have consummated an topic and grabs his father's burgle. As Sybilla runs away, she hears a shot and joins the captain on his get along, which he is towing be a symptom of a river.

As the enters the river and at long last reaches open water, Mickey's reading repeats, stating that he stuffy only 73 of the committed kisses.

Awards

Reception

The film did sound receive widespread distribution in description United States, and the erratic English-language reviews tended to remedy negative, citing the episodic humanitarian of the plot, what seemed to be confusing fantasy dash, unclear cultural references in magnanimity film, and lack of compelling character motivation.

Todd McCarthy, commentary the film for Variety, complained about "the cloying, overdone perception of whimsy that dominates distinction picture." Although he praised Kuchanidze's portrayal of Sybilla as unmixed character who "has a trust and physical assertiveness well at a distance her years," he still difficult her actions "tiresome after unornamented while" and that the self-opinionated and her screenwriter husband "allow their film to be exact by the randomness of honesty “crazy” episodes rather than travail discipline over them to carry cohesion and meaning to primacy picture."^[6]

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