Synopsis
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
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Cast
- Lika BabluaniEka
- Mariam BokeriaNatia
- Zurab GogaladzeKote
- Data ZakareishviliLado
- Giorgi AladashviliKopla
- Gia ShoniaWakho, Kopla's Friend
- Ana NijaradzeAna, Eka's Mother
- Maiko NinuaSophiko, Eka's Sister
- Tamar BukhnikashviliNatia's Mother
- Temiko ChichinadzeNatia's Father
Recommendations
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The A.V. Club
Keenly observed, geographically specific portraits of adolescence are always welcome, but there’s definitely something to be said for charging the genre’s usual tender lyricism with an ever-present threat of life-altering violence. - 80
Village Voice
This is a film for which the landscape, both social and material, is paramount. - 80
NPR
More directly, In Bloom follows on 2012's "The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear," a documentary by Tinatin Gurchiani that offered bleak vignettes about the lives of young Georgians. - 75
Slant Magazine
The foreclosure of possibilities provided by the use of the long take assists in the indictment of chauvinism and patriarchal brutality that underpin, directly and indirectly, many moments in the film. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
It’s a universal story that is also, by virtue of its very particular time and place, a singular experience. - 70
The New York Times
The two lead performances — Lika Babluani as Eka and Mariam Bokeria as Natia — are direct and unaffected, but also enigmatic in the way that nonprofessional screen acting can be in the hands of a sensitive director. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
In Bloom feels, more than anything else, like a war movie. - 63
New York Post
In terms of its outlook for young girls in Georgia, the movie title might as well be “Buried Alive.”
