Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Adieu, plancher des vaches!)
Part of the BAMcinematek series Winners of the Prix Louis Delluc
Mon, April 27 at 4:30, 7, 9:30pm
Directed by Otar Iosseliani
With Nico Tarielashvili, Lily Lavina
(1999) 118min
“[A] hugely charming piece, wondrously inventive, consistently witty, engaging in its devotion to the joys of wine, women and song, and somewhat deeper than it first appears.” —Time Out London
In this warm, buoyant farce, a gigantic pet stork keeps watch over a roundelay of human folly. A wealthy young man finds respite from high society by working as a dishwasher in Paris, his mother flies to and from her job via helicopter, and the family patriarch (played by the director) plays with a child’s train set while drinking himself silly. Surreal and airy, this film is a refreshing, ironic, and drunken fable.
Time Out review of Farewell, Home Sweet Home!
"a hugely charming piece, wondrously inventive, consistently witty, engaging in its devotion to the joys of wine, women and song, and somewhat deeper than it first appears." More