Tato Kotetishvili

Aug 12, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Ramon Zürcher |Ben Rivers |Tato Kotetishvili

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM LOCARNOA small child survives a plane crash, waking up in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon. American missionary Lawrence Byrne (Jeremy Xido) rescues and names her Rebecca. He claims her as his own daughter, and he heavily implies that Jesus Christ ensured her safety. As a teenager, Rebecca (Helena Zengel) takes the form of a healer, bringing solace to the ill and the elderly via her communication with God.

Jul 22, 2024 | dmovies.org | Daniel Theophanous |Laurynas Bareiša |Pia Marais |Tato Kotetishvili

As mainstream films go, there’s always a propensity for narrational extremes, considering themselves as beacons of escapism from the doldrums of our ordinary life. But ordinary life can be is just as captivating with all its transient intricacies, felt keenly by and more adjacent to the lives of the audiences watching. The onus appears to lie in the hands of arthouse cinema, with movies such as Janet Planet, which inventively portrays the beauty and poignancy of the everyday.