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- 2021
- Not Rated
- MUBI
- 2 h 10 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- MUBI
- 2 h 10 m
Summary In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana's inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires.
Written By: Dea Kulumbegashvili
- 2021
- Not Rated
- MUBI
- 2 h 10 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- MUBI
- 2 h 10 m
Beginning
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7.2
Summary In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana's inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires.
Written By: Dea Kulumbegashvili
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
81
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Beginning is not a derivative work. Its slow-cinema trappings aren’t merely plucked from the films that have taught its maker along the way, but prove a rhythmically apt, intuitive way into the headspace of its protagonist, a woman who feels her very life has been put on pause.
Rarely has a film made me so painfully, viscerally aware of the impotence of spectatorship — of the dubious remove from which we watch suffering.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
7.2
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Generally Favorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
7.2
67% Positive
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To its mild detriment, Beginning stays on a cerebral plane even at its most ravaging and emotionally intense. But in its muted havoc lies a potent intellectual laceration.
Sukhitashvili’s subtle performance brings interiority to a character who might otherwise be defined entirely by her suffering.
As a purely aesthetic cinematic experience, Beginning will surely number among the best of the year.
Whether this challenging film is more than the sum of its formally inventive parts will depend on a viewer’s patience, as well as their tolerance for ambiguity and discomfort.
Kulumbegashvili’s style is confident, if derivative. Her technique now has to evolve away from these self-conscious influences.
Production Company
First Picture,
Office of Film Architecture / OFA,
Zadig Films,
Georgian National Film Centre,
Nederlands Filmfonds,
Hubert Bals Fund,
Sam Spiegel International Film Lab
Release Date Jan 29, 2021
Duration 2 h 10 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Singapore International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 2 Nominations