{"id":184068,"date":"2021-02-20T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-beginning-review-dea-kulumbegashvilis-astonishing-debut\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:26:40","slug":"watch-beginning-review-dea-kulumbegashvilis-astonishing-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-beginning-review-dea-kulumbegashvilis-astonishing-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Beginning&#8217; Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili&#8217;s Astonishing Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33e263c744d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33e263c744d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-beginning-review-dea-kulumbegashvilis-astonishing-debut\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Beginning_Review_Dea_Kulumbegashvilis_Astonishing_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Beginning&#8217; Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili&#8217;s Astonishing Debut&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-beginning-review-dea-kulumbegashvilis-astonishing-debut\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Beginning_Review_Dea_Kulumbegashvilis_Astonishing_Debut%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Beginning&#8217; Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili&#8217;s Astonishing Debut&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Beginning_Review_Dea_Kulumbegashvilis_Astonishing_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Beginning&#8217; Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili&#8217;s Astonishing Debut&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Beginning_Review_Dea_Kulumbegashvilis_Astonishing_Debut%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Beginning&#8217; Review: Dea Kulumbegashvili&#8217;s Astonishing Debut&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        At the midpoint of her astounding first feature \u201cBeginning,\u201d Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili pulls off a brazen formalist coup that will either envelop you entirely in its world or freeze you out for good. On a glimmering autumn afternoon, put-together mother Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili) goes strolling with her pre-teen son Giorgi (Saba Gogichaishvili) in local woodlands, pausing at a leaf-carpeted clearing, where ringing birdsong and insect chatter fuse into a kind of white noise. Carefully, she lies down and closes her eyes. For six minutes, across one unbroken, tightly framed shot, we watch her rest, playing dead when her son tries to rouse her; eventually, the soundtrack of nature is subsumed by the quiet of her mind, briefly at peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning\u201d contains more jolting provocations on either side of this pristine long take, but none quite so breathtaking. Some may dismiss it as an indulgent stunt, but viewers receptive to Kulumbegashvili\u2019s aesthetic will themselves be drawn into Yana\u2019s same fragile trance \u2014 a moment of head-cleared calm that, given what we\u2019ve already seen, must inevitably precede some violent disruption. We cling to these drawn-out minutes rather than waiting them out; the film, while no stranger to silence, will never be so serene again. We\u2019ve already heard her describe a nagging sense of malaise to her husband: \u201cIt\u2019s as if I were waiting for something to start, or to end.\u201d Kulumbegashvili frequently drops her audience in the same anxious limbo.<\/p>\n<p>With its preponderance of long, still takes and sustained passages of non-verbal storytelling \u2014 all the better to focus our attention on DP Arseni Khachaturan\u2019s precise, almost tweezer-adjusted compositions in tight Academy ratio \u2014 Kulumbegashvili\u2019s debut openly prompts comparisons to such formalist titans as Michael Haneke and Carlos\u00a0 Reygadas. (The latter\u2019s name is especially invited by his presence here as an executive producer.) She has enough directorial poise and muscle for such reference points to flatter her rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> her up, but either way, \u201cBeginning\u201d is not a derivative work. Its slow-cinema tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ings aren\u2019t merely plucked from the films that have taught its maker along the way, but prove a rhythmically apt, intuitive way into the headspace of its protagonist, a woman who feels her very life has been put on pause.<\/p>\n<p>Yana was an actress once, in a youth that can\u2019t have been all that long ago \u2014 she\u2019s in her late thirties \u2014 but may as well count as another life. Since then, she\u2019s married David (Rati Oneli, also one of the film\u2019s writers and producers), a Jehovah\u2019s Witness minister bent on forging a following in the unaccepting Orthodox Christian terrain of rural Georgia, and had a son. And while religious wifedom and motherhood now constitute her entire public identity, her acting skills still come heavily into play, as she puts on a stoic face of assurance and contentment for a community that is not so stable.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s indelible, eight-minute opening shot illustrates what she (and they) are up against: From the back of the modest Kingdom Hall, the camera statically watches as Yana enters, ushering in a congregation for an afternoon service, which David goes on to deliver with chiding vigor. Before he can work up a full head of fire and brimstone, someone beats him to the punch: A Molotov cocktail is hurled into the room from the entrance, and the camera remains unmoved as hysteria ensues. The worshippers are more panicked than Yana and David, who share the frame\u2019s sangfroid; this isn\u2019t the first strike against them, and she\u2019s beginning to wonder what it\u2019s all for. When David heads to the city for a few days for a debriefing with church elders, she defies his command by insisting on staying home. She wants to be alone, she says: Whether that means a time-out to reconsider her marriage or her very existence, it\u2019s among the many thoughts she keeps to herself.<\/p>\n<p>David duly leaves her alone, but the universe does not. Her temporary peace is shattered again by an unnamed, alleged detective (Kakha Kintsurashvili) from Tbilisi, who presses her with questions about the recent bombing, which turn out to be only a prelude to more intimate, invasive interrogation. Over two profoundly uncomfortable, slow-burning scenes, he strips all the rigid defenses she maintains as a barrier even from her husband. His predatory psychological violence eventually gives way to an assault that merits the strongest of trigger warnings \u2014 shot aerially by Kulumbegashvili and Khachaturan with both discreet distance and unrelenting plainness of perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Yana\u2019s reaction to this mid-film rupture is neither predictable nor rash. Instead, Kulumbegashvili and the superb Sukhitashvili \u2014 whose solemn, straight-backed bearing just seems to conceal more pain by the minute \u2014 play out a dissociated breakdown in considered slow motion, until all Yana\u2019s angsts and anxieties crystallize into devastating resolve, an act against masculinity less vengeful than preventative. If \u201cBeginning\u201d doesn\u2019t reward her, or the audience, with the cathartic action prescribed by sundry variations of the rape-revenge melodrama, it\u2019s because Kulumbegashvili isn\u2019t fixated on one unspeakable act, but uses it to place in relief the many, incremental ways patriarchal society has worked over years to hollow out a woman\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner we see this, the more urgency and gravity we feel in the film\u2019s intricate, painstaking focus on Yana\u2019s daily domestic rituals, lengthy woodland naps and all. The boxy dimensions of the frame don\u2019t just outline her <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> isolation, but evoke, in tandem with richly expressive, disorienting sound design, an outside world she can see but not touch. Some of Kulumbegashvili\u2019s tableaux, it seems, converse directly with the exquisite feminist drudgery of Chantal Akerman\u2019s \u201cJeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,\u201d likewise building to a quietly drastic break in routine. In \u201cBeginning,\u201d the ambiguous, elliptical ending wrenches us from Yana\u2019s perspective entirely, for a cosmic act of closure that isn\u2019t so much an enactment of justice as an aloof admission that all agents of evil eventually expire, until they begin anew. In between, as in so many stretches of this extraordinary film, silence fills the waiting space.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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