{"id":33014,"date":"2015-02-07T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=33014"},"modified":"2015-02-08T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T16:01:39","slug":"tangerines-zaza-urushadze-2013-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=33014","title":{"rendered":"Tangerines (Zaza Urushadze, 2013): Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by e Howard Green. \u00a0Attended at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, February 6, 2015 at the Metro 4 Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/estonianworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Tangerines.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/ width=\"325\" height=\"210\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Santa Barbara International Film Festival again showed its selection prowess by hosting the 1992 Georgian war\u00a0story <em><strong>Tangerines. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>It is\u00a0one of all\u00a0five 2015 Academy Award nominations\u00a0in the Foreign Language category being offered in SBIFF&#8217;s\u00a03oth Anniversary season. \u00a0(See elsewhere on this site reviews of other candidates.)<\/p>\n<p>Two Estonian men refuse to flee the region of Abkhazian during a mass exodus at the beginning of the Soviet conflict over\u00a0Georgia, staying to bring a crop of tangerines to market. \u00a0The box maker Ivo\u00a0(Lembit Ulfsak) and farmer Margus (Elmo Nuganen) are caught up in crossfire of two rival combat teams and Ivo takes in a badly wounded soldier from each side. \u00a0As they recover, they are initially hostile to the other but develop mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p>Directed, produced, and written by Zaza Urushadze\u00a0(Georgian film director and screenwriter). <em><strong>\u00a0Tangerines<\/strong><\/em> was filmed in Georgia using locally prominent actors, performing in Estonian and Russian languages. \u00a0The budget was (only) some 650,000 euros.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the film is set in the simple house of Ivo or his factory, and details are abundant of the &#8220;make do&#8221; way of life of countryside living.<em><strong> \u00a0Tangerines<\/strong><\/em> contains many shots of rural landscape and orchards, but is interspersed with small scale combat\u00a0action and death, realistically depicted. \u00a0It might be classified in the\u00a0pacifist gendre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by e Howard Green. \u00a0Attended at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, February 6, 2015 at the Metro 4 Theatre. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival again showed its selection prowess by hosting the 1992 Georgian war\u00a0story Tangerines. \u00a0It is\u00a0one of all\u00a0five 2015 Academy Award nominations\u00a0in the Foreign Language category being offered in SBIFF&#8217;s\u00a03oth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}