Perhaps the landmark sophomore feature of 2024, Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili has found a safe space in the U.S. via newish distributor Metrograph Pictures who acquired the North American rights to the Venice Special Jury Prize winner. Hailed as the best film (tied alongside The Brutalist) to come out of Venice by our chief film critic Nicholas Bell who praised (read our 4-star review) April for how it “drifts into stagnation, every visual moment is feeding into the themes of the film, including the multiple escapes into the mercurial nature of spring, rife with blossoming fertility but also presenting a fragile landscape vulnerable to destruction.… Read the rest
