Vagif Mustafayev is one of the most talented Directors of the post soviet space... he was noticed by critics in 1988 with his movie THE SCOUNDREL... in year 1991 he did even better with the movie VNE aka(OUTSIDE)... though I think his best work is a short movie ALL FOR THE BEST - Fantastic movie which won 4 main Prizes at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen...
In NATIONAL BOMB stylistic and artistic features take over. This is a great Comedy, but a very sad movie at the same time. It's a very familiar story, about shooting a movie which has to stop because of lack of money. The story comes alongside with the life-story of an old studio editor, who is fired for the same reason...
I can call it a sequence to old favorites - from great Georgian shorts to Fassbinder and Wenders... it's all there and at the same time unique...
The only thing I didn't like in the movie is - THE SCRIPT... I get the feeling the movie isn't sustained by a powerful one.
however, the main actor - Avtandil Makharadze, who once shocked audiences with superb performance in "Repentance" (one of the best soviet time movie), is strong enough to hold films meaning and structure together. once you get to see this old editor, you fall in love...
