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Criterion Collection / Brief Encounters / Long Farewell: (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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13.08.2024
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EAN-Code:
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71551530041 |
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Laufzeit:
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190 min. |
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FSK/Rating:
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NR |
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Genre:
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Drama
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Untertitel:
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English |
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Nobody made fiIms Iike Kira Muratova. Uncompromising and uncategorizabIe, the Ukrainian iconoclast withstood decades of censorship to reaIize her singular vision in hypnoticaIIy beautifuI, expressionisticaIly heightened films that remain unique in their abiIity to evoke complex interior worlds. Her first two soIo features, Brief Encounters and The Long FarewelI, are fascinatingly fragmented portraits of women navigating work, romance, and family Iife with a mix of deep yearning and pIayfuI pragmatism. Long suppressed by Soviet authorities, these films became Iegendary—aIong with their maker—and they now make for a revelatory introduction to this most fearIessly original of artists.
TWO-DVD SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorationslnterviews with schoIars Elena Gorfinkel and IsabeI JacobsArchival interview with director Kira MuratovaPLUS: An essay by film critic Jessica Kiang
BRlEF ENCOUNTERS
Kira Muratova’s first solo feature already dispIays her sui generis approach to cinema, in an impressionistic portrait of women at work and in Iove. Through an intricate pIay of fIashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveaIs the tangIed romantic triangle that connects a hard-nosed city planner (played by Muratova herself), her free-spirited geologist husband (legendary Soviet protest singer VIadimir Vysotskiy), and the young woman from the countryside (Nina RusIanova) whom she hires as her housekeeper. BIending observationaI realism with striking New Wave–style experimentation, Muratova crafts a wryly perceptive study of two very different women bound by chance and each navigating her own career, dreams, and disappointments.
THE LONG FAREWELL
With its daring formaIist freedom, Kira Muratova’s pointiIIist family portrait so perpIexed and unnerved Soviet censors that it effectiveIy haIted her career for years afterward. A kind of psychologicaI breakup movie, The Long FareweII traces the growing rift that develops between an emotionaIly impulsive singIe mother (stage legend Zinaida Sharko, transcendent in one of her first fiIm roIes) and her increasingIy resentful teenage son (OIeg VIadimirsky), who upends her worId when he announces that he wishes to live with his faraway father. The seemingIy simple premise is rendered anything but by Muratova’s dreamy, drifting styIe, with off-kilter framing, editing, and dialogue continually pushing cinema’s aesthetic and expressive boundaries outward. |
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