A Necklace for My Beloved (1971)
Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember for the rest of her life. The friends set out in search of the special gift…
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it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
a gem. small. delicate and seductive. remembering old fairy tales from the East, using the motif of looking for the love and the sacrifices for conquering it, not ignoring popular themes and being an Abuladze admirable work. a film of a special emotion more than of a story. because the story is well known in the space between Balkans and Caucasus. and only the humor, the music, the acting are the pieces for make the difference . the poetry of film - one of the basic virtues. the social and cultural exploring - the other significant pillar of a film about small things defining, in profound sense, the life. so, a travel for demonstrate the force of noble feelings.
Fairy tale and story about small things, nice and delicate, picture of a world and its values, old flavor and a hero without great ambitions but with clear desire to married, picturesque and tale in tale, window to a way to define the basic truth,it is, in fact, a piece of Abuladze, in which the taste of later "Natvris khe" is present and power, in which the search of happiness has same recipes, in which the nature is part of this search.The gift for the beautiful girl, the innocence of Bakhadur, the songs and rites are slices of the heart of strange expectation to define yourself. Beautiful and naive, the movie is trip among the shadows of childhood. And skin for a Sunday afternoon, definition of sense of faith and image of a roots - words for who the life is only cloak of dream