“April” is a film grounded in realism. In the story of Nina (Ia Sukhitashvili), a Georgian OB-GYN who provides abortions to the women of the neighboring village, the protagonist’s patients are played by first-time performers drawing from their own lives in the rural areas where the film was shot. Writer/director Dea Kulumbegashvili is so detail-oriented that she spent the better part of a year in the hospital, where “April” also filmed, studying the doctors, even convincing them to…
How Chilling Sound Design, POV Shots, and an Uncanny Creature Create a Cinema of Perception in ‘April’
