Product Description
Street Days (Quchis Dgeebi) - Amazon.com Exclusive A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son's school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband's lack of interest in the family's survival—even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by the uncertainty of their deepening moral dilemma, and a series of worsening foul-ups, in Levan Koguashvili's lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia's post-Soviet era. "…in the gritty, low-key realism of its strong performances, "Street" finds an absorbing mix of comic anguish and twisted hope -- especially in the devastating self-knowledge of Kotetishvili's gaze." –Hollywood Reporter "Mr. Koguashvili and his director of photography, Archil Akhvlediani, use the narrow streets and weathered buildings of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, to great pictorial effect." –The New York Times Street Days is an official selection of the prestigious, award-winning Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. In Georgian with English subtitles.
Review
...in the gritty, low-key realism of its strong performances, Street Days finds an absorbing mix of comic anguish and twisted hope -- especially in the devastating self-knowledge of Kotetishvili's gaze. ---The Hollywood Reporter
Georgian cinema has a new star in director Levan Koguashvili, whose superb neorealist drama, Street Days is just the calling card the beleaguered country needs. Stylistically and thematically reminiscent of new Romanian cinema, the pic plumbs the contentious, corrupt and crumbling social landscape of Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, while following a down-at-the-heels heroin addict struggling to protect a friend's son from corrupt cops. Lensed with impressive assurance and boasting powerful performances from a combo of established pros and non-pros, Street Days looks poised to lead a Georgian renaissance spearheaded by fests and advancing into the arthouse circuit. ---Variety
Mr. Koguashvili and his director of photography, Archil Akhvlediani, use the narrow streets and weathered buildings of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, to great pictorial effect. ---The New York Times
About the Director
Levan Koghuashvili was born in Georgia in 1973. He began his studies at the State Institute of Film and Theatre in Tbilisi, and then worked as a journalist for independent television after civil war broke out in Georgia. In 2002, he enrolled in the Tisch School of the Art's graduate film program at New York University. His 2006 short film, The Debt, was an Official Selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and his documentary, Women from Georgia, was selected for the Panorama section of the 2009 Sarajevo Film Festival. Street Days is his first feature film.
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