When you see the

movie, unfortunately, some of these great actors like Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Zendaya, Travis Scott, and of course Lupita Nyong'o are given far less to do than one would hope.

And so that was a disappointment for me.

I did find myself getting swept along, right? The film is three hours.

I didn't feel like it was three hours, so I can give it that.

And some of the set pieces were pretty extraordinarily done.

I liked the...

And like, I was kind of surprised that that performance and i think like florence pew again also in that film both of them just seem to be like hung out to dry by the filmmaking rather than by their own choices like kind of coming from a different movie but um i don't know i would i was eager to hear what you guys thought about the penelope character and hathaway's performance

Uh, and uh, yeah, and I'm, I'm very pleased that this is happening, that this came together.

I, yeah, I think Edo pretty much covered it.

It's, it's one of these situations where, um, you know, I think we both had, uh, interest in Iosseliani, um, passively for a while, and then the occasion of, of new restorations being acquired, uh, provides an opportunity, um, right, to, to dive in.

And for Asia Society, it made the most sense to Stick with his, uh, Georgian features.

There may be contention about [laughs] whether Georgia is part of Asia, but, uh, you know, I, I opt towards having as expansive a definition as possible so that I can simply play as much as I want to.

You know, I'll say Asia Society also considers Australia part of Asia.

I was gonna say, yeah

... um, before cinema, and also mathematics, which to a d- there's a, there's a schematic element to his later films especially, too.

Would you sketch out the premise for our listeners?

I did, yeah.

So Clarissa is a modern-day adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.

And this version is about a group of friends in Nigeria who we see in the past, I'll say, in younger versions of themselves, contrasted with older versions of themselves.

And there's a kind of beautiful way that that time slippage is handled.

It's not obvious.

There are no lower thirds or kind of obvious signifiers.

Steven Spielberg's artificial intelligence.