What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Name: What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Director: Alexandre Koberidze
Released: 2021

Alexandre Koberidze

2021

Synopsis

In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way to recognize each other.

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100
The Hollywood Reporter
The camera often seems to capture seemingly quotidian moments, but Koberidze’s painterly eye elevates them to intimate flashes of poetry and delight.
91
The Playlist
One finds oneself hard-pressed to find a wasted frame here.
90
Screen Daily
In the sheer exuberance of its exploratory spirit, Koberidze’s film is very much of benefit to cinema – and any who feared that the art form was running out of new ways to find poetry in the real.
90
Variety
We are active participants in the creation of this (or any) work of cinema. And given how much this movie loves the movies, as well as dogs, music, children, soccer, ice cream, the ancient Georgian town of Kutaisi, and the very process of falling in love, there is something immensely hopeful and moving about being thus invited to collude.
88
RogerEbert.com
In the meantime, this movie means to make us notice the marvelous in the everyday, in much the way that a great James Schuyler poem does.
83
IndieWire
Too distracted to be a love story, too contained to be a city symphony, and not didactic enough to feel like an essay film, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? gradually coalesces into a kind of abstract pastoral romance more than anything else — it finds the romance that fringes everything around us, and captures it on camera with the unbearable lightness of a movie that knows we could never hope to see it with the naked eye.
75
The Film Stage
More than a romance, or a fairy tale about sentient security cameras, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is an ode to living in the moment and finding beauty in the familiar. It’s an endurance test of a film, but one rich with detail, if you have the patience to look for it.
70
Paste Magazine
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is an apt, simple fable that feels somewhat hopeful for our modern world—one where evil wins, but love overcomes.