What unites them all, the only interest they all share, is money. Consistently excellent actors like ray winstone and michael shannon perform alongside the wooden. Its unwieldy dual title aside, tzameti is the better film, though not quite the finished article. He ends up in an underground room where mysterious people place bets on other mens lives. Following in the tradition of japanese and some fellow european directors, frenchgoergian director gela babluani is upping stumps to the states to shoot a remake of his own film, tzameti. Unlike the original film in which babluani also stared, this time the film had a lot of known hollywood actors and it.
Moneys money cleveland international film festival. The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside. The viewers surrogate played by the directors younger brother is a guy we dont know much about hes an opportunistic contractor whos about to be stiffed for services rendered, so he steals his employers invitation to. Join facebook to connect with gela babluani and others you may know. Sebastien works as a roofer, with little or no prospects. He is the son of the prominent director temur babluani. Mickey rourke, ray winstone, jason statham, sam riley, 50 cent and ray liotta have boarded, gela babluanis englishlanguage remake of his 2005 french film tzameti according to variety.
We have a little update on the upcoming gela babluanis, and im sure youre going to love it after all, we have a great cast involved in this englishlanguage remake of the 2005 french movie tzameti in case you forgot, alexander skarsgard, sam riley, jason statham, curtis 50 cent, jackson. Georgianfrench helmer gela babluani, who made his englishlanguage debut with sam riley starrer, is to helm detroitset money is. Georgianfrench helmer gela babluani, who made his englishlanguage debut with sam riley starrer, is to helm detroitset money is money. In todays society, there is an increasingly bigger gap between different social classes. A highconcept suspense picture set in france but centred on a young georgian immigrant, this is very potent if ultimately rather hollow filmmaking. Though gela babluanis debut is lean, hard, and savage as a starved doberman pinscher, its a film i might never have seen of my own. Description adapted from the film society at lincoln center. Welcome to a platform where professionals can meet and exchange information and ideas. Temur babluanis the sun of the sleepless udzinarta mze. To repay part of his debts, he decides to burglary a house to retrieve a.
Gela babluani, the georgianborn director whose 2005 debut feature tzameti announced the arrival of a serious new talent, returns to the noir genre with money, a heistgonewrong thriller that. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. In a workingclass neighborhood in le havre, a man raises his daughter alone and encounters many financial worries. G iven the renewed interest in georgian cinema in recent years, it is striking that the work of temur babluani and his sun of the sleepless in particular have largely eluded the attention of western curators and programmers alike. I feel that its getting worse, and that people like the politician in the film no longer have any idea about how the other people live.
His first feature film tzameti won the world cinema jury prize at the sundance film festival. With several extraordinary scenes, not for the fainthearted, tzameti is less shocking for what it shows than for its portrait of the amoral world it so convincingly captures. The film, starring his brother, george babluani, took the world cinema dramatic prize at the 2006 sundance film festival as well as prizes last year in venice and his native georgia at the. First time director, gela babluanis film, shot in stark black and white, has deservedly won several prestigious awards, including the grand jury prize at the sundance film festival. Il est en competition au 10e festival du film francophone dangouleme. Momas ambitious 45title retrospective discovering georgian cinema 20142015 for instance, curated by susan oxtoby and organized in. Im sure you all remember this project, and thats exactly why were here today. His first feature length film is tzameti, won the world cinema jury prize for a dramatic motion. At 17 years of age, he and his three siblings were sent to study in france.
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