What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
59th New York Film Festival
September 24 - October 10, 2021
Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze has created an intimate city symphony like no other with his new film, which starts out as an off-kilter romance between footballer Giorgi and pharmacist Lisa and continues to radically and pleasurably shape-shift, ultimately becoming a lovely, idiosyncratic portrait of an entire urban landscape.
Ends Thursday!
Among contemporary cinema’s most exciting and distinctive new voices, Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze has created an intimate city symphony like no other with his latest film. Beginning as an off-kilter romance in which footballer Giorgi and pharmacist Lisa are brought together on the streets of Kutaisi by chance, only to have their dreams complicated when they become victims of an age-old curse, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? continues to radically and pleasurably shape-shift. Ultimately it becomes a lovely portrait of an entire urban landscape and the preoccupations—and World Cup obsessions—of the people who live there. Koberidze has made an idiosyncratic epic out of passing glances that feels as free and fulsome as a fairy tale. A MUBI release. An NYFF59 selection.
Introducing Matinee Pricing! All tickets are $10 for screenings before 3pm.
A gorgeous modern fairy tale.
—Jessica Kiang, The New York Times
A wondrous romance.
—Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter
A slyly inventive, free-ranging adventure in cinematic possibility.
—Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
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