In Bloom

Flicks with The Film Snob

In Bloom

Apr 24 2014 |

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Show Notes

A little miracle has come out of Georgia, the former Soviet republic. It’s a film called In Bloom, written by Nana Ekvtimishvili, and directed by her and Simon Gross. It tells of two 14-year-old girls living in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, in a time of poverty and great unrest. You’d have to know about the history of the region to pick up, from occasional conversations and snatches of TV news in the film, that it’s 1992, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Georgia suffered through a coup and a civil war. But if you don’t know about…

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