Chant d'hiver (2015)

Chant d’hiver: Directed by Otar Iosseliani. With Rufus, Amiran Amiranashvili, Mathias Jung, Enrico Ghezzi. A deadpan, picaresque buddy comedy about two old friends through a series of urban adventures, loosely connected by the skull of an executed French aristocrat. Winter Song is a typically irreverent Iosselianian jaunt through a classy Paris apartment block contemplating the past, present and future.

“Possibly the most boring film I have ever seen. Not funny, the camera person appeared to trip up regularly as they were moving around and I have no idea what the story was. It could easily have been something a high school art student put together, such was the quality. The parts I think were meant to be funny were dull and predictable. The acting was terrible, at one point a woman took a drink from a hip flask but didnu0026#39;t tilt it as she lowered it, clearly showing there was nothing in it. I have never seen so many people walk out of a film before (and Iu0026#39;ve seen some howlers) I think this was meant to have a deeper meaning but it was buried so deep as to be non existent. Just do whatever you can to avoid this.”