“The excellent IN BLOOM has the heartbreak and hope of a country slipped inside a coming-of age-story of two 14-year-old girls.” – LA TIMES
“A sombre, electrifying triumph….Interestingly, the recent films that have the greatest insight and understanding of adolescence have come from overseas – “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” “The Past” and “Wadjda.” “In Bloom” deserves placement on that stellar list.” – Christopher Schobert, The Buffalo News
“Poignant” with “current events significance.” – George Sax, Artvoice
“The excellent new drama “In Bloom,” Georgia’s Oscar entry in the foreign-language category, has the heartbreak and hope of a country slipped inside a coming-of age-story of two 14-year-old girls.” – Betsey Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
“Georgia’s reputation as the latest cinematic hotspot for emerging talent is enhanced further by “In Bloom,” an absorbing, intelligently assembled coming-of-ager that revolves around two pubescent gal-pals growing up in 1992, just after independence was restored.” – Leslie Felperin, Variety
It’s the early nineties, in Tbilisi, in the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is facing violence, war on the Black Sea coast (Abkhazia) and vigilante justice that plague society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable friends, life just unfolds: in the street, at school, with friends or elder sisters who are already dealing with men’s dominance, early marriage and disillusioned love. For these two girls in bloom life just goes on… (c) Big World