Now playing in competition at Sarajevo, Georgian writer-director Ana Urushadze’s Rotterdam prizewinner follows a lumbering movie star on a surreal and wryly melancholic soul-search.
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"Supporting Role" (Courtesy of Allfilm) A nocturnal odyssey through the spectral streets of Tbilisi is conjured with mesmerizing effect in Georgian writer-director Ana Urushadze’s “Supporting Role.” On the heavy heels of Niaz (Dato Bakhtadze), a lumbering Georgian movie star whose glory days are behind him, Urushadze’s second feature plays like an old-school Jim Jarmusch joint — all existential wandering and weird, winding conversations — but with a distinctly post-Soviet gallows humor. Having won a Special Jury award and the FIPRESCI prize at Rotterdam in January, the film now lands in the main competition at Sarajevo.
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