Life on top uncut5/13/2023 In Kitty Green’s austere but devastating drama, we’re never told the identity of the cyclopean shape that cuts across the screen like a shark through water. To Merab, those dances are an act of reclamation. He soon begins to explore his identity and his sexuality through movement: whether he’s out celebrating in the streets, partying to Abba, or seducing Irakli to Robyn’s “Honey”. Merab’s story isn’t just about the pangs of desire, but the slow untethering from tradition’s pressures and expectations. Akin’s film argues that joy can itself be a form of radical defiance. Troops had to be stationed at the film’s few Georgian screenings, after ultra-conservative and pro-Russian protestors swarmed outside of the cinema. Homosexuality isn’t outlawed in Georgia, but the country remains in the stranglehold of conservatism.
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