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July 11, 2006
'13 Tzameti,' Babluani Warm Up For NYC Opening at Core Club
Get used to this face (and the chest hair and sunglasses, I guess). It belongs to Gela Babluani, the Georgian filmmaker whose thriller 13 Tzameti has caused a stir pretty much everywhere it has screened since premiering (and claiming the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize) this year at Sundance. Last time I saw him, after a wintry flight delay had made him late to the awards show in Park City, he shuffled through the crowd stunned, having virtually no English vocabulary to respond to the teeming hordes congratulating him on his triumph.
Babluani eventually made it to New York for the film's inclusion in the New Directors/New Films lineup, and I caught up with him again Monday night, when he introduced a private screening of Tzameti for an audience at the Core Club. He demonstrated a delicate grasp of the new language he had been practicing in anticipation of the film's upcoming American remake; Palm Pictures will release the haunting, harrowing black-and-white original--about a young man accidentally caught up in one of recent cinema's more sinister rackets--July 28 in New York.
"I hope that you're going to like this movie," he said, gesturing to the screen. "I don't want to talk much about the movie. He talks by himself, if he can talk about himself. Thank you to be here." Babluani smiled. "Good projection."
Yeah, well, if Palm can carry the buzz over to awards season, it will probably only get better. Just a guess.
Posted by stvanairsdale at July 11, 2006 10:56 AM
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