漫长的告别1971

It is a great film by a great Muratova has never been given her due in the Soviet and post-Soviet 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 Muratova shows the tiny details of everyday Soviet life,and, again , banal as they are ,they are a hair-raising dialogue is deliberately laconic and void of any sense, showing the ever-growing people's inability to communicate and understand each sound track ( by another under-estimated talent, Oleg Karavaichuk)adds to the atmosphere of hopeless and meaningless course,Sasha (the name of the protagonist),will leave his despotic ( but loving!) mother sooner or later, but where for? (c)