2023-12-17 23:35:27
The Georgian filmmaker died overnight from Saturday to Sunday at the age of 89. He had lived for several years in France, where he filmed some of his greatest films.
Filmmaker Otar Iosseliani, 1999 Louis-Delluc Prize in France for Goodbye, cow floor!, died on the night of Saturday December 16 to Sunday December 17 in Georgia, at the age of 89, we learned from its French distributor, Régine Vial. This director notably chaired the jury for the Caméra d’or, which crowns the best first film presented in one of the sections of the Cannes Film Festival, in 2000.
Otar Iosseliani was born in Tbilisi and trained at the VGIK film school in Moscow in the 1950s, where he was already distinguished by the fantasy, non-conformism and amused distance that would mark his work.
Several years in France
His first films in Georgia – Falling leaves, Once upon a time there was a singing blackbird, Pastoral – earned him international recognition. Two decisive connections, René Clair then Jacques Tati, linked him to France, where he settled for many years. He turns there Moon’s FavoritesThen The butterfly hunt, Brigands Chapter VII et Goodbye, cow floor!.
«Our job is heavy and difficult enough to take our work lightly, said Otar Iosseliani. I would like my films to be a gift, a gift for someone I don’t know but who necessarily has the same ideas as me». «Happiness for me is if someone manages to properly articulate an idea, which I also had in mind: you watch a film, you read a book and you say to yourself: what joy, he thinks like me!», he liked to add.
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