Evenings of Cinema with Arvo Pärt │ Julie Bertucelli: Since Otar left
The successful screening series of the Estonian Institute presenting the numerous links between Arvo Pärt’s music and cinema is to be continued in 2017. Pärt’s music inspired numerous film directors from Jean-Luc Godard through Tom Tykwer.
SINCE OTAR LEFT
(Depuis qu'Otar est parti)
French-Belgian drama film, 2003, 99 min.
directed by Julie Bertucelli
Since Otar Left is a 2003 film by director Julie Bertuccelli, recounting the lives of three Georgian women in modern-day Tbilisi. It focuses on the attempts of a mother and daughter, Marina (Nino Khomasuridze) and Ada (Dinara Drukarova), to hide the death of Marina's brother in Paris from her elderly mother, Eka (Esther Gorintin). The film was widely well-received, and won the coveted Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Works of Arvo Pärt used in the soundtrack: Spiegel im Spiegel, Für Alina.
The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi.