PASTORALE

Pastorale is one of Otar Iosseliani’s most layered films.

A group of musicians travels to the countryside for rehearsals, where nature and everyday life create a sense of pastoral peace. Beneath this surface harmony, Iosseliani’s characteristic irony gradually emerges - the incompatibility of art, labour, and social order.

Some critics read the film as a deconstruction of the rural idyll, while others see it as cinema built on observation, rhythm, and everyday gestures, offering the world as it is: disharmonious, ironic, and quietly beautiful.