Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story
- warm
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Our read · Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · satire · absurdist entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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