Synopsis

The film is dedicated to the renowned film director Sergey Paradjanov; to the unfolding memory of a man who was refereed to as a genius, a gay, a mime, a tradesman, a saint. The film possesses no plain and logical plot line and altogether breaks away from the ordinary conception of any film genre.

It is a psychoanalysis of the nether-world essence of the great master, a search for other dimensions about which we dare not even sometimes speculate.

Bobo is also peculiar in that it uses the entire material of the master’s last unfinished film “Confession” accompanied by Paradjanov’s confession why he closed down the film, left it unfinished.

“Hell and Heaven” this is the problem that preoccupies us in the film BOBO.

Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan

Bobo is lovingly shot and relentless in its solidarity with the visionary Armenian filmmaker as he struggles to complete what would have been his swan song with a powerful, piercing cry.

The death of Paradjanov is an irrecoverable loss to the cinema, but this document at least brings us a final, vivid picture, lest we should even think of forgetting.

Don Ranvaud