“A Little Monastery in Tuscany” (1988) is the most serene and mystical work in Otar Iosseliani’s oeuvre. It is a film about harmony—an observation of a rhythm of life that has remained unchanged for centuries. Iosseliani reveals a place where people are never in a hurry, and even the simplest gesture holds profound meaning. The labor of the peasants is as much a prayer as the devotion of the monks. Iosseliani shows that these two worlds are, in reality, a single, unified whole.