What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

6/13/2026

Many old Europeans, including my grandmother, had their superstitions; the evil eye, the protective gestures, the whispered warnings against certain glances or envious attention. Alexandre Koberidze has taken one such ancient belief and turned it into a love story fable: two young lovers in Kutaisi, Georgia meet by chance, fall instantly in love, but are cursed by the evil eye so that when they arrive for their first date, their physical appearances have changed and they cannot recognize each other. It's a charming premise, whimsical and melancholic in equal measure. But that's not what this film is about. The love story, enchanting as it may be, functions as a stage, a production design element for a much greater theme: identity. The "evil eye" curse doesn't just alter appearances;