All the signifiers were there - especially in fashion and hairstyle, not to mention the Beatles and rock and roll as a subversive force behind the Iron Curtain - and this film worked for me primarily as a period piece, albeit a tense one, as a group of young art school intellectuals attempts to escape Soviet Georgia, 1983, for the west, with bloody results. Based on real events. The scenes highlighting their innocence and naivete add something to it, as does the closing note about the ban on international travel being lifted in 1991, too late for nearly all of the unsuccessful party.
(w/ Hayley)
(w/ Hayley)
