I. Home, Uninhabitable “It’s impossible to live here.” These words are uttered by Lena, who's just arrived back home to her village in the Caucasus, where there’s been a war on for two years. Childhood is over, and geopolitical conflict has warped her surroundings. She intends to collect her grandparents and take them back with her to Moscow, but is soon trapped, when the trains stop running. Armenian director Maria Saakyan’s The Lighthouse immerses us in the mind of a woman for whom real sanctuary exists only in memories. Impossible to live in one’s home as it was, but impossible not to return obsessively in dreams—it’s the in-between fate of exiles which Saakyan, who relocated from Yerevan to Moscow with her family in 1992 amid the region’s political turmoil, knew all too well. She turned to a poetic, uncanny cinematic language to grapple with...
- 7/23/2020
- MUBI
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