The tale focuses on 2 objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century polished picture. As these things are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to one more, a giddy round dancing of excess starts to form, one which suggests that if history does not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose various other co-writing debts include Repulsion and also Tess, Otar Iosseliani utilizes a feather-light touch to reveal the futility of class as well as social order, making a bagatelle of the problems of abundant as well as poor alike.
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The tale focuses on 2 objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century polished picture. As these things are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to one more, a giddy round dancing of excess starts to form, one which suggests that if history does not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose various other co-writing debts include Repulsion and also Tess, Otar Iosseliani utilizes a feather-light touch to reveal the futility of class as well as social order, making a bagatelle of the problems of abundant as well as poor alike.
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