MODERN LIFE PARADOX

Depicting total opposites and making them exchange their places is always fun to watch and has some great potentials for developing. When a debt crushed business man ends up his suicide attempt stranded on a deserted river island in the middle of the city, entire modern way of life will be ridiculed in „Castaway on the Moon”. When a sociopathic and agoraphobic girl establishs contact with him, the comedy and amusement will kick in.

Sadly, the script tends to deflate in its bottom half, not giving us the ending it deserves.

„Castaway on the Moon” is a solid piece of criticism with some unexploited potentials.

CASTAWAY ON THE MOON - 5/10

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SILENT, BUT GREAT

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Georgian cinematography is small, but has some really talented people making movies. Budgets are low, production are simple, but the scripts and the stories are good, revolving mainly about several civil war conflicts that shook the small Caucasian country in the past couple of decades.

”Corn island” is about the hard and stark life of an old farmer and his daughter that exploit small island created by the river floods to grow the seasonal crop of corn. Most of the flick is almost silent, with graphic presentation of the exhausting agricultural process of turning a pile of mud into a fertile ground, while all the spoken interaction happens when different fractions of war parties conjure on the little island seeking one of the wounded soldiers that got away from captivity.

George Ovasvilli's camera is just plain magnificent, as well as the Old man, portrayed by Ilyas Salman. Although very slow, movie gradually builds the eminent tragedy that strikes at the very end, giving the entire story meaning.

”Corn island” is one great artistic movie with the strong symbolic message for the viewer.

CORN ISLAND - 8/10