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Corn Island

Original title: Simindis kundzuli
  • 20142014
  • 1h 40m
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7.5/10
4.5K
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Corn Island (2014)
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The river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.The river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.The river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.
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    • George Ovashvili
    • Roelof Jan Minneboo
    • George Ovashvili
    • Nugzar Shataidze
  • Stars
    • Ilyas Salman
    • Mariam Buturishvili
    • Irakli Samushia
    • George Ovashvili
    • Roelof Jan Minneboo
    • George Ovashvili
    • Nugzar Shataidze
  • Stars
    • Ilyas Salman
    • Mariam Buturishvili
    • Irakli Samushia
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    • 13User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
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    Ilyas Salman and Mariam Buturishvili in Corn Island (2014)
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    Ilyas Salman
    Ilyas Salman
    • Old man
    Mariam Buturishvili
    • Girl
    Irakli Samushia
    • Soldier
    Tamer Levent
    Tamer Levent
    • Abkhazian oficer
      • George Ovashvili
      • Roelof Jan Minneboo
      • George Ovashvili
      • Nugzar Shataidze
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    • Trivia
      In order to find the location for this movie, the filmmakers had been looking for a real island for two years. Eventually, they realised it would be too complicated and too dangerous to film on such a place. Instead, they built the island on an artificial lake, where they could control the water level to some extent, director George Ovashvili revealed in an interview.
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      Referenced in CT na MFF Karlovy Vary 2017: Generální reditel Petr Dvorák (2017)

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    10/10
    the best art film of the decade
    One of the main goals of art film is to depict life in its most pure, elemental state. Yet few art movies have managed to achieve that goal with as much grace and poetic depth as George Ovashivili's Corn Island. This immaculately composed film takes the viewers on a soul-touching journey into the desolate, breathtakingly beautiful wilderness of a small island in Georgia and perfectly captures the rhythm of nature and the relation between nature and the two main characters whose daily struggles are interweaved into the light, sound and motion of nature around them. Throughout the film, the viewer can't help but feel the life-like, natural quality of every picture and scene. There are no excessive details; everything is distilled into its most natural state. The image of the old man's granddaughter sitting on the boat with a bundle of shining reed under the crisp sunlight is a precise portrait of life itself. In essence, art has blended into life, and life into art. What is more remarkable is that the director has managed to convey this profound state of life without the help of dialogue. Perhaps one could argue that it is precisely the lack of dialogue that has made this film that much more powerful and moving. A scene in the beginning where the old man fondly looks at a little bird pecking at the wood conveys a sense of elegance that no language can easily convey. Even the intermittent gunshots we hear in the background and the discovery of a wounded soldier that temporarily disrupts the tranquility of the island do not lead the film to deviate from its original artistic path. On the contrary, the tension lurking in the background elevates the humanistic aspect of the film to a new height. In the end, every human gesture and activity is dissolved into the larger nature. What we are left with is a film that touches the depth of our soul with such simplicity and gracefulness that very few films can match.
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    • slowboatmo
    • Sep 28, 2014

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    • Release date
      • September 17, 2014 (Georgia)
      • Georgia
      • Germany
      • France
      • Czech Republic
      • Kazakhstan
      • Hungary
      • Official site (Hungary)
      • Georgian
      • Abkhazian
      • Russian
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      • Georgia
    • Production companies
      • 42film
      • Alamdary Films
      • Arizona Films
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby SR

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