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In Bloom
Directed by
Nana Ekvtimishvili
,
Simon Groß
Not Rated
2014
1h 42m
Drama
7.3
90%
76%
7.1
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Set in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992. Friends Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.
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Cast of In Bloom
Lika Babluani
Eka
Mariam Bokeria
Natia
Zurab Gogaladze
Kote
Data Zakareishvili
Lado
Giorgi Aladashvili
Kopla
Gia Shonia
Wakho, Kopla's Friend
Ana Nijaradze
Ana, Eka's Mother
Maia Ninua
Sophiko, Eka's Sister
Tamar Bukhnikashvili
Natia's Mother
Temiko Chichinadze
Natia's Father
Berta Khapava
Natela, Natia's Grandmother
Endi Dzidzava
Kote's Mother
Zaza Salia
Kote's Father
Sandro Shanshiashvili
Natia's Brother
Marina Janashia
Teacher
Nino Tvauri
Lela - Classmate
Shota Meskhadze
Achiko - Classmate
Petre Revazishvili
Paichadze - Classmate
Maia Lomidze
Bread Seller
Davit Archvadze
Singer
In Bloom Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Drew Hunt
Directors Nana Ekvtimshvili and Simon Gross adopt the long, contemplative takes of the new wave; much of the film feels familiar, but the location shooting and period details are nicely drawn, a result of Ekvtimshvili's autobiographical script.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
The viewer becomes keenly aware that she is only getting part of the story. But when the truth is so troubling, sometimes part of the story is more than enough.
Arts Fuse
Gerald Peary
Among the best features to come recently out of Eastern Europe, featuring the tough-minded cinematography of Romania's Oleg Matu, who shot 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Despite the seeming inevitability of tragedy and despair, "In Bloom" remains true to its title.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The world painted by directors Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon GroB is almost relentlessly grim, and even the giggles of two schoolgirls get drowned.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
The film accurately reflects the girls' numbness, but it is devoid of sustaining emotional impact. Eka and Natia's full pain is oddly remote.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
A fascinating snapshot of a country at war with itself (literally, eventually) as seen through the eyes of two teenage girls, whose lives are complicated enough as it is.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
The excellent new drama In Bloom, Georgia's Oscar entry in the foreign-language category, has the heartbreak and hope of a country slipped inside a coming-of age-story of two 14-year-old girls.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This adroit and understated coming-of-age film reminded me of the New Wave of Czech films in the 1960s, but with a distinctive poignancy that translates to wisdom.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
The directors stay close on their characters and let scenes play out in handheld long takes, so that the miseries inflicted never feel distant or clinical, but immediate.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a universal story that is also, by virtue of its very particular time and place, a singular experience.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Where the two directors, Georgia's Nana Ekvtimishvili and Germany's Simon Gross, excel most is in the performances they capture from the two leads.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It matter-of-factly lays out the predicaments of its characters, balancing a strong, implicit feminist sensibility with a sympathetic sense of the power of tradition.
NPR
Tomas Hachard
The double meaning becomes clear early on. What takes longer to recognize is the title's bitter irony.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
In Bloom so triumphantly, albeit modestly, transcends its category that it's really quite special.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Dalton
First-time writer-director revisits her bittersweet Tblisi childhood.
Variety
Leslie Felperin
An absorbing, intelligently assembled coming-of-ager that revolves around two pubescent gal-pals growing up in 1992, just after independence was restored.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Keenly observed, geographically specific portraits of adolescence are always welcome, but there's definitely something to be said for charging the genre's usual tender lyricism with an ever-present threat of life-altering violence.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
The site of the action, the pummeled landscape of revolution and war, isn't incidental -- it's what their generation has inherited, alongside disorder and dissent.
Slant Magazine
Oscar Moralde
The foreclosure of possibilities provided by the use of the long take assists in the indictment of chauvinism and patriarchal brutality that underpin, directly and indirectly, many moments in the film.
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