The way home for Aleksandr Rekhviashvili is not charted in the conventional sense It takes the viewer along some peculiar roads and across a unique landscape Georgian history and legend politics and social stratification religion and ethics Allusive stylized and allegorical from beginning to end his longbanned The Way Home is in part a tribute to Rekhviashvilis favorite director Pasolini especially to The Hawks and the Sparrows 1966 Together with the short film Nutsa 1971 and the widely acclaimed Georgian Chronicle of the 19th Century 1979 SFIFF 1983 The Way Home closes a triptych of films that represent Rekhviashvilis poetic contemplation of Georgias past It makes extensive use of poems by Bella Akhmadulina the major female poet of the cultural thaw of the 50s and 60s and a Georgian by descent and of sets by Amir Kakabadze Like other films in the trilogy The Way Home is stunningly photographed in blackandwhiteOxymoron
