In Bloom

March 21 – March 27
In Bloom
Fri 3/21 6:30 (Mezzanine Lounge Open); Sun 3/23 5:00; Mon 3/24 6:30; Tue 3/25 9:00; Wed 3/26 6:30; Thur 3/27 4:00 & 9:00

Dir.: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross / 2014 / Georgia, Germany, France / in Georgian with English subtitles / 102 min / DCP
The award winning In Bloom is a realistic portrait of two 14-year-old girls living in post-Soviet Georgia. Set in 1992 among the chaos and civil unrest of the newly independent Georgian state, Eka and Natia are coming of age in a tentative society that has yet to gain its footing. Violence and chaos permeate their everyday lives: at school, educators rule with an iron fist and classmates are cruel, while at home, families argue, spurred by the stress of their difficult lives. Eka and Natia seem to only have each other, until the appearance of a gun comes between them. One of the girls wants to keep the weapon for protection from the looming threat of forced kidnapping and marriage, while the other is reluctant to internalize the bleak truth of the corruption that surrounds them. A.O. Scott of The New York Times calls In Bloom “direct and affecting.”