Georgia’s Ana Urushadze Talks ‘Supporting Role,’ ‘Exploration of Masculinity’ That Follows Locarno Prizewinner ‘Scary Mother’
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Georgian filmmaker Ana Urushadze, whose debut “Scary Mother” won best first feature at the Locarno Film Festival in 2017, is readying her anticipated sophomore feature, “Supporting Role.” The writer-director is presenting the film this week in the works-in-progress section of CineLink Industry Days, the industry arm of the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The film follows a once-famous star of Georgian cinema, who — triggered by a casting session with a young female director — embarks on a bizarre and fatalistic odyssey of self-transformation.
Accustomed to playing charming heroic protagonists, he is insulted by the offer of a supporting role. But gradually, without realizing it himself, he starts getting into character and seemingly unconsciously accepts the role he has been offered to play.
Speaking to Variety in Sarajevo, Urushadze explained that the film was inspired by the auditions for her first feature, when she was searching for an elderly man to play the role of the protagonist’s father.
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