27 Missing Kisses (2000) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

A summer of curiosity, desire, misinterpretation, and escape unfolds around a Georgian village and its surrounding waterways.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

A Summer of Wandering

A fourteen-year-old visitor arrives in a Georgian village and explores its homes, streets, and countryside. Mickey's voice-over introduces the promise of one hundred kisses and the eventual total of seventy-three.

Key Events

• Summer Village Arrival — A fourteen-year-old visitor arrives in the village for a summer visit to her grandmother. Location: A small Georgian village
• The Missing Kisses — Mickey's voice-over recalls a promise of one hundred kisses, of which he received only seventy-three. Characters: Mickey Location: The village
• Village Wandering — The visiting teenager moves freely through the village and countryside, often accompanied by Mickey. Characters: Mickey Location: Village streets and countryside
• Astronomer Fascination — The visitor develops a strong crush on Mickey's forty-one-year-old father, Alexander, an astronomer. Characters: Alexander, Mickey Location: The village
• Uninvited Home Visits — The visitor sometimes enters villagers' homes without permission and observes their private lives. Characters: Mickey Location: Village homes
• Villagers Attend Screening — Much of the town attends a screening of the 1974 French erotic film Emmanuelle. Location: The village theater

Desire Behind The Screen

The village watches an erotic film, while Mickey and the visitor hide behind the theater screen. The visitor becomes increasingly fascinated by Alexander, Mickey's astronomer father, and observes the villagers' affairs.

Key Events

• Villagers Attend Screening — Much of the town attends a screening of the 1974 French erotic film Emmanuelle. Location: The village theater
• Hidden Theater Viewing — Mickey and the visitor secretly watch the film from behind the theater screen. Characters: Mickey Location: Behind the theater screen
• Village Affairs Unfold — The visitor witnesses several relationships and infidelities among the villagers. Location: The village
• Comic Affair Incident — An engineer encounters comic trouble when his penis becomes stuck in a ball-bearing ring. Location: A village home
• Captain Seeks Lost Sea — Captain has towed his ship to the village outskirts while searching for his lost sea. Characters: Captain Location: The outskirts of the village
• A Friendship Begins — The visiting teenager becomes friends with Captain during his stay near the village. Characters: Captain Location: The captain's ship

The Captain's Lost Sea

Captain arrives at the outskirts with a ship in search of his lost sea. The visitor becomes his friend as the village's comic and troubling affairs continue to expose adult contradictions.

Key Events

• A Friendship Begins — The visiting teenager becomes friends with Captain during his stay near the village. Characters: Captain Location: The captain's ship
• Alexander's Seductions — The visitor spies on Alexander as he attempts to seduce other women. Characters: Alexander Location: The village
• Secret Interference — The visitor sometimes interferes secretly with Alexander's attempts to seduce other women. Characters: Alexander Location: Village homes
• Unpleasant Consequences — Some of the villagers' affairs lead to consequences that are less comic and more disturbing. Location: The village
• Nighttime Bedroom Visit — The visitor sneaks into Alexander's bed at night and asks him to marry her. Characters: Alexander Location: Alexander's house

A Proposal In The Night

The visitor spies on Alexander's seductions and secretly interferes with them. She eventually enters his bed, asks him to marry her, and is ordered to leave.

Key Events

• Nighttime Bedroom Visit — The visitor sneaks into Alexander's bed at night and asks him to marry her. Characters: Alexander Location: Alexander's house
• Marriage Proposal Rejected — The visitor promises to be a better wife than the other women, but Alexander orders her to leave. Characters: Alexander Location: Alexander's house
• Mickey Misreads Scene — Mickey sees Alexander and the visitor half-naked outside the house and assumes they had an affair. Characters: Alexander, Mickey Location: Outside Alexander's house
• The Rifle Grabbed — Mickey grabs his father's rifle after drawing his own conclusion from the scene. Characters: Alexander, Mickey Location: Outside Alexander's house

The Shot And The Sea

Mickey misinterprets the half-naked encounter and grabs his father's rifle. After a shot is heard, the visitor joins Captain's ship, which travels through the river toward open water while Mickey's voice-over returns to the missing kisses.

Key Events

• The Rifle Grabbed — Mickey grabs his father's rifle after drawing his own conclusion from the scene. Characters: Alexander, Mickey Location: Outside Alexander's house
• Shot Heard — As the visitor runs away, she hears a shot behind her. Characters: Alexander, Mickey Location: Near Alexander's house
• Escape Toward River — After hearing the shot, the visitor joins Captain on the ship as it is towed toward a river. Characters: Captain Location: The captain's ship
• Ship Reaches Open Water — The ship enters the river and finally reaches open water. Characters: Captain Location: The river and open water
• Seventy-Three Kisses — Mickey's voice-over repeats that he received only seventy-three of the promised kisses. Characters: Mickey Location: Open water

Story Breakdown

• Village Summer — The visiting teenager enters a small Georgian village and begins exploring its social world.
  • Grandmother Visit — The visitor arrives for a summer stay with her grandmother.
  • Country Wandering — She runs through village streets and the surrounding countryside, often accompanied by Mickey.
• Kiss Promise — Mickey's voice-over frames the story through a promise that remains incomplete.
  • Hundred Kisses — The visitor promises Mickey one hundred kisses.
  • Seventy Three — Mickey says he receives only seventy-three, leaving twenty-seven missing.
• Forbidden Viewing — The village screening changes the atmosphere as the young observers encounter adult erotic imagery.
  • French Film — The town attends a screening of the 1974 French erotic film Emmanuelle.
  • Hidden Screen — Mickey and the visitor watch from behind the theater screen.
• Village Infidelities — The visitor observes comic and painful affairs among the villagers.
  • Comic Encounter — An engineer becomes trapped by a ball-bearing ring during an affair.
  • Painful Outcomes — Other affairs produce consequences that are less humorous.
• Alexander's Pursuit — The visitor's fascination with Alexander grows as she watches and disrupts his seductions.
  • Astronomer Crush — She develops a strong crush on Mickey's father, Alexander, an astronomer.
  • Secret Interference — She spies on and sometimes secretly interferes with Alexander's seductions.
• Captain's Passage — Captain and his ship provide an alternative route away from the village's tensions.
  • Lost Sea Search — Captain brings his ship to the outskirts while searching for his lost sea.
  • Growing Friendship — The visitor becomes friends with Captain during his stay.
• Nighttime Proposal — The visitor turns her fascination with Alexander into a direct and rejected proposal.
  • Bedside Request — She sneaks into Alexander's bed and asks him to marry her.
  • Ordered Away — Alexander is startled and immediately orders her to leave.
• Rifle Misunderstanding — Mickey interprets the nighttime encounter as an affair and transforms confusion into danger.
  • Half Naked Witness — Mickey sees Alexander and the visitor outside the house, both half-naked.
  • Shot Heard — Mickey grabs his father's rifle, and the fleeing visitor hears a shot.
• River Escape — The story closes with movement away from the village and a return to the kiss motif.
  • Toward The River — The visitor joins Captain on his ship as it is towed toward a river.
  • Open Water — The ship reaches open water while Mickey repeats the total of seventy-three kisses.

Directed by

Nana Jorjadze

Key Cast

• Nutsa Kukhianidze — Sibylla
• Evgeniy Sidikhin — Alexander
• Shalva Iashvili — Mickey
• Pierre Richard — Captain
• Nino Koberidze