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  • 2021
  • MUBI
  • 2 h 30 m
  • 2021
  • MUBI
  • 2 h 30 m

Summary In the Georgian riverside city 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 or contact each other. As the would-be couple tries to reun...

Directed By: Aleksandre Koberidze

Written By: Aleksandre Koberidze

  • 2021
  • MUBI
  • 2 h 30 m
  • 2021
  • MUBI
  • 2 h 30 m

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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82
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary In the Georgian riverside city 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 or contact each other. As the would-be couple tries to reun...

Directed By: Aleksandre Koberidze

Written By: Aleksandre Koberidze

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
82
94% Positive
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 16 Critic Reviews
82
94% Positive
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Nov 26, 2021
The most entrancingly feel-good movie of the year.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
91
Mar 5, 2021
One finds oneself hard-pressed to find a wasted frame here.
By Jack King FULL REVIEW

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25% Mixed
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25% Negative
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90
Mar 5, 2021
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.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 19, 2022
At 150 minutes, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? could easily have been shorter and still achieved its intended emotional and aesthetic effects. But a river isn’t less pleasant for meandering before it reaches the ocean: if this is how it has to happen before we lose the thread of Lisa and Giorgi’s lives in the flow of others, then so be it.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 22, 2022
In his idyllic city symphony, Koberidze celebrates the serendipity of fate and the rhythms of daily life that bring together what is meant to be.
By Caitlin Quinlan FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 11, 2021
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.
By Brianna Zigler FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 23, 2022
This is a film that tries your patience a fair bit, and yet there is something attractive in its kind of innocence.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), New Matter Films, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Sakdoc film
Release Date Nov 12, 2021
Duration 2 h 30 m
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Awards

German Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Tokyo FILMeX
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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