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Bookmark this pageFarewell, Home Sweet Home (1999)
Director: Otar Iosseliani
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From Time Out Film Guide
Iosseliani's wholly delightful, assured and typically idiosyncratic fable tells of the various reversals of fortune that affect a well to do 19-year-old, who rebels against his culture-vulture businesswoman mother and boozily indolent father. He forsakes the family chateau for café 'society, preferring the company of its denizens - Parisian dropouts, immigrants, barstaff - to home life. As ever, the jigsaw narrative slowly pieces itself together, and the overall dearth of dialogue means that the audience has to work for its pleasures. But it's a hugely charming piece, wondrously inventive, consistently witty, engaging in its devotion to the joys of wine, women and song, and somewhat deeper than it first appears.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Otar Iosseliani
Producer: Martine Marignac
Cast: Nico Tarielashvili, Lily Lavina, Philippe Bas, Stéphanie Hainque, Amiran Amiranachvili, Otar Iosseliani full cast
Duration: 117 mins
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