It is a great film by a great director.Kira Muratova has never been given her
It is a great film by a great director.Kira Muratova has never been given her due in the Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.In the "Long Good Bye" she depicts a seemingly banal story of a jealous and possessive mother (brilliantly acted by Zinaida Sharko) and her poor aloof and lonely son (the only cinematic role by the talented O. Vladimirsky). The story - which is nothing extraordinary in itself - grows into the wonderful and frightening analysis of alienation between genders and generations on the background of the even more frighteningly bleak and dehumanized Soviet reality.Kira Muratova shows the tiny details of everyday Soviet life,and, again , banal as they are ,they are a hair-raising horror.The dialogue is deliberately laconic and void of any sense, showing the ever-growing people's inability to communicate and understand each other.The sound track ( by another under-estimated talent, Oleg Karavaichuk)adds to the atmosphere of hopeless and meaningless existence.Of course,Sasha (the name of the protagonist),will leave his despotic ( but loving!) mother sooner or later, but where for? (c)
主演:莫里斯·孔特,奥克萨纳·奥兰,Jose Conejo Martin,Ski Carr,蔡斯·科尔曼,Alanna De La Rossa,Maria del Rosario,塞巴斯蒂安·卡瓦哈尔,Juan Camilo Castillo,小戴维·M·桑多瓦尔,Jason Gurvitz,卡洛斯·莫瑞诺,德里克·奥坎波,Marcela Benjumea,Robert Steven Brown,Billy Smith,Allen Quindiagan,Nicolas Troya,罗曼·波利安斯基,马里奥·罗恰