Khorosho (Todo bien)
2010 · 22m · España , Georgia
Directed by Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Former army comrades Andro and Beka reunite, sharing a heap of bad memories, much bad conscience, and mountains of cigarettes.
Picked by Margot
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Two guys chain-smoking through guilt and camaraderie sounds like every maudlin indie platitude, except Jiménez strips away the music-swells and lets the awkward silences do the heavy lifting—it's almost aggressively unresolved in a way that feels genuinely subversive.
This sits squarely in the Eastern European realist tradition, but what elevates it is the precision of the editing rhythm and how Jiménez composes these two figures in space—the cigarettes become a formal motif that structures the emotional architecture without ever announcing itself.
The entire film hinges on Jiménez's decision to never cut away from the actors' faces during the long drags and exhales—that commitment to a single, unglamorous physical gesture becomes the whole emotional truth of their estrangement.