Favourites of the Moon (1984)

The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose other co-writing credits include Repulsion and Tess, Otar Iosseliani uses a feather-light touch to expose the futility of class and social order, making a bagatelle of the concerns of rich and poor alike.
Otar Iosseliani
Katja Rupé, Alix de Montaigu, Francois Michel, Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Pascal Aubier, Christiane Bailly, Bernard Eisenschitz, Hans Peter Cloos, Maïté Nahyr, Mathieu Amalric, László Szabó, Yannick Carpentier, Fanny Dupin, Marie Parra Aledo, Gabriella Sheer, René Vo Van Mihn, Gaspard Flori, Emilie Aubry
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