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Flicking #66: Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

With an awards-bothering central performance from Eka Chavleishvili, Elene Naveriani’s adaptation of Tamta Melashvili’s 2020 novel got smashing reviews across the board. Set in a small, remote village in Georgia, the film brings us Etero, a single, middle-aged woman whose quiet, insular life is exploded by a near-death experience and a sexual awakening.  But is Etero isolated or independent? How mean can women feasibly be to one another? Is it a sexy film? And will talking about it prove too much for Mick’s pronunciation abilities? Yeah, that last one’s rhetorical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, it's Jamie Lang here. Now, can I just grab me for just one second to tell you about

0:04.4

my podcast, Great Company? It's out every Wednesday and I'm joined by someone I really admire for a

0:10.5

great conversation. It's a space to share, to be inspired, to learn, to be moved, to even laugh.

0:15.8

There are so many things that I get from it and there are no gimmicks. It's just me, great guests,

0:20.5

and you. You are the

0:21.5

most important person, you, the listener. Listen and subscribe to great company with me, Jamie Lang.

0:26.3

New episodes out every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts. There were three ordinary women

0:32.5

on what seemed like a simple mission to find a film they liked.

0:38.3

One where women got something to do and not just look pretty or be murdered, which, to

0:44.3

be totally honest, has complicated matters a bit.

0:48.3

Welcome to Flicking. Yes, it sounds a bit rude. That's the joke.

1:08.1

Hello and welcome to Flicking. I'm Hannah Dunleavy and no prizes for guessing who I'm with, but just in case you'd actually like to know who I'm with, I'm joined as ever by Yosra Osmond.

1:14.2

Hello! Hello, Yosra and Hicker of this month's film, Mickey Noonan.

1:19.0

Isn't the prize that they get to hear our wonderful dulcet tones?

1:21.7

Surely that is just, you know, an hour old prize.

1:27.9

Yeah, although to be fair, if they just carried on listening, they're getting it anyway, right?

1:31.2

I guess so. You've ruined it, Hannah. You've ruined it.

1:35.5

I mean, let's see what happens with this film, eh? Indeed.

1:38.0

So, Mickey, what did you pick this month that, just for clarity, is set in Georgia the country and not Georgia the state.

1:46.1

Thank you. This month we watched Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry and yet, until I started

1:51.2

looking for what to watch, I hadn't heard of it either. And look, I can only apologise in advance

1:56.6

for the mangling of Georgian the country's names that is about to happen very much by my hand,

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