(Tamra
Gabrichidze/2018/Georgia)
Gela buys
second hand clothes, knick knacks and assorted household goods in
Tbilisi and carries them around the countryside of Georgia in his van
selling them in villages for potatoes which hold more value than
actual money. In the twenty or so minutes of this film we are gifted
an insight into the hardship and beatitude of life in modern day
Georgia. The essence of people’s humanity, their struggle to
survive and the cut and thrust of old style bartering are all on
show. Tamra Gabrichidze adeptly moves from moments of light
heartedness to crushing bleakness, The Trader is a dense microcosm of
the harsh realities of global economics with the human will to live
as its shining heart.
(4/5)
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