A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.Read More »
Kira Muratova
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Kira Muratova – Dolgie provody AKA A Long Goodbye (1971)
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Kira Muratova – Korotkiye vstrechi AKA Brief Encounters (1967)
1961-1970DramaKira MuratovaUSSRAnna Lawton wrote:
After a brilliant debut with Our Daily Bread (1965), co-directed with her husband Alexander Muratov, Muratova was allowed to make her own film, Brief Encounters (1967). On the surface the story was simple enough. Valentina, a conscientious civil servant in charge of the regional housing office, and Maxim, a geologist-prospector and guitar player devoted to an itinerant and adventurous life, have a difficult relationship – a series of brief encounters and lengthy separations. Their episodic meetings bring into focus their love and need for each other, but also their basic differences, disappointments, and resentment. There is a third character in this love triangle, Nadya, a country girl Valentina hires as a maid without knowing of her past relation with Maxim.Read More » -
Kira Muratova – Nastroyshchik AKA The Tuner (2004)
2001-2010ArthouseCrimeKira MuratovaUkrainePLOT: A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.Read More »
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Aleksandr Muratov & Kira Muratova – Vesenniy dozhd AKA Spring Rain (1958)
1951-1960Aleksandr MuratovDramaKira MuratovaShort FilmUSSRTwo young people meet when they are punished for travelling on the train without a ticket and discover shortly afterwards that they work in the same factory. Their good connection is hindered by her bad memory of her alcoholic father.
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Kira Muratova – Kukla AKA Doll (2008)
Kira Muratova2001-2010Short FilmUkraineFraud has always been a burning issue. The story could have taken place in any era. But the very title – “The Doll”, that is, a fake wad of money – points to our times. The character in the film is a hilarious sadist. It’s a perversion of the psyche that borders on insanity: “I hate my ex-wife so much that I’ll pretend to ennoble her and actually play a trick on her.”Read More »
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Kira Muratova – Astenicheskiy sindrom AKA Asthenic Syndrome (1990)
1981-1990ArthouseKira MuratovaUSSRQuote:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it’s termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it’s not much fun.Read More » -
Kira Muratova – Peremena uchasti AKA Change of Fortune (1987)
1981-1990ArthouseDramaKira MuratovaUSSRQuote:
A lawyer is preparing to defend a rich, respected man’s wife, who killed a friend of the family who was attempting to sexually assault her. The scenario changes abruptly for all involved when the lawyer discovers a love letter from the woman to the murdered man.Read More » -
Kira Muratova – Nastroyshchik AKA The Tuner (2004)
2001-2010ArthouseKira MuratovaRussiaQuote:
At the heart of Kira Muratova’s newest film, The Tuner (Nastroishchik, 2004), is her characteristic and enduring love of predation—predation for its own sake. Of course, any talk of “the heart of Muratova’s work” is a judgment of anatomy rather than sentiment, as any admirer would attest. With The Tuner, she has produced an extraordinary new film that offers a complex assessment of the human subject, civilization, and the creative act.Read More » -
Kira Muratova – Korotkie vstrechi AKA Brief Encounters (1967)
1961-1970DramaKira MuratovaRomanceThe Female GazeUSSRkinoglaz.fr:
Nadya (Nina Ruslanova) is a young woman who loves the geologist Maxim (Vladimir Vysotsky). She takes a job as a housemaid before discovering Maxim is romantically involved with town official Valentina Ivanovna (Kira Muratova). The heartbroken Nadya goes away before Maxim can return, leaving him and Valentina to pursue their romance.—
imdb:
Nadja, a country girl moves to the city and becomes Valya’s maid. Valya, a member of the District Soviet, does not know that Nadja fell in love with Valya’s currently absent husband, a geologist, when he was at her village on a recent expedition. Written by Erik Gregersen {[email protected]}Read More »
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