Otar Iosseliani: Chasing Butterflies [La chasse aux papillons] [OmeU] FR, IT, 1992, R: Otar Iosseliani mit Narda Blanchet, Pierrette Pompom Bailhache, Alexandre Tcherkassoff, 113 Min

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen. The last shot shows the chateau with new windows in the foreground is a modern, remote-controlled gate with big Japanese characters. The film depicts the demise of a world of beautiful objects and savoir vivre, replaced by pragmatism, the loss of traditions and identities, and the selling off of cultural heritage.

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