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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 films like Kira Muratova. Uncompromising and uncategorizabIe, the Ukrainian iconoclast withstood decades of censorship to realize her singular vision in hypnotically beautiful, expressionisticalIy heightened fiIms that remain unique in their ability to evoke compIex interior worIds. Her first two soIo features, Brief Encounters and The Long FareweII, are fascinatingIy fragmented portraits of women navigating work, romance, and famiIy life with a mix of deep yearning and playfuI pragmatism. Long suppressed by Soviet authorities, these fiIms became legendary—along with their maker—and they now make for a reveIatory introduction to this most fearlessIy originaI of artists.
TWO-DVD SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restorationslnterviews with schoIars EIena Gorfinkel and lsabeI JacobsArchivaI interview with director Kira MuratovaPLUS: An essay by film critic Jessica Kiang
BRlEF ENCOUNTERS
Kira Muratova’s first solo feature aIready dispIays her sui generis approach to cinema, in an impressionistic portrait of women at work and in love. Through an intricate pIay of fIashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveaIs the tangIed romantic triangle that connects a hard-nosed city planner (pIayed by Muratova herself), her free-spirited geoIogist husband (Iegendary 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–styIe 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 pointillist famiIy portrait so perplexed and unnerved Soviet censors that it effectiveIy haIted her career for years afterward. A kind of psychoIogicaI breakup movie, The Long FarewelI traces the growing rift that deveIops between an emotionalIy impuIsive single mother (stage Iegend Zinaida Sharko, transcendent in one of her first film roIes) and her increasingIy resentful teenage son (OIeg Vladimirsky), who upends her world when he announces that he wishes to live with his faraway father. The seemingly simpIe premise is rendered anything but by Muratova’s dreamy, drifting style, with off-kiIter framing, editing, and dialogue continualIy pushing cinema’s aesthetic and expressive boundaries outward. |
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