A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?... (Full plot summary below)
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A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
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| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSplit into two parts and narrated by Koberidze himself, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is a true magic act, intimate and massive at the same time. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarThe most entrancingly feel-good movie of the year. |
| The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe camera often seems to capture seemingly quotidian moments, but Koberidze’s painterly eye elevates them to intimate flashes of poetry and delight. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyIn the meantime, this movie means to make us notice the marvelous in the everyday, in much the way that a great James Schuyler poem does. |
| Screen DailyJonathan RomneyIn 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. |
| VarietyJessica KiangWe are active participants in the creation of this (or any) work of cinema. And given how much this movie loves the movies, as well as dogs, music, children, soccer, ice cream, the ancient Georgian town of Kutaisi, and the very process of falling in love, there is something immensely hopeful and moving about being thus invited to collude. |
| The PlaylistJack KingOne finds oneself hard-pressed to find a wasted frame here. |
| Little White LiesCaitlin QuinlanIn his idyllic city symphony, Koberidze celebrates the serendipity of fate and the rhythms of daily life that bring together what is meant to be. |
| The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeThere’s a languid kind of magic to Koberidze’s approach, which, with its enchanting score, digressive montages and sparse dialogue, has roots in silent cinema but also feels refreshingly and genuinely original. |
| CineVueChristopher MachellAt 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. |
