To celebrate the release of Brief Encounters and The Long Farewell coming to Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital on September 18th we have 2 sets of both Blu-Rays to give away!
STUDIOCANAL are pleased to announce their Vintage World Classics release of two seminal works by female director Kira Muratova, one of the leading figures in Ukranian and Russian cinema. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS and THE LONG FAREWELL have been beautifully restored in 4k and, following their premiere in Bologna at the Cinema Ritrovata Festival, will be available for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from 18 September.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (1967) was the debut feature from Kira Muratova, and shows the beginnings of her impressionistic style, blending observational realism with new wave experimentation. Through an intricate play of flashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveals the intricate love triangle, connecting a hard-nosed city planner (played by Muratova herself), her free-spirited geologist husband (legendary Soviet protest singer Vladimir Vysotsky), and the young woman from the countryside (Nina Ruslanova in her breakout role) whom she hires as their housekeeper. Muratvoa crafts a wryly perceptive portrait of two very different women connected by chance yet each navigating her own dreams, ambitions and disappointments.
Filmed in 1971, Kira Muratova’s THE LONG FAREWELL was banned and shelved, not to be screened in Perestroika until 1987. The film focuses on the story between a single mother and her teenage son. Evgenia (Zinaida Sharko) and Sasha (Oleg Vladimirsky) have a close relationship, but adolescence spells dark clouds on the horizon. After a visit to his father, Sasha becomes increasingly taciturn, looking to break away from the overprotection of his mother and live instead with his father. Muratova’s editing and framing creates a coming-of-age tale in which the standard push-pull of dramatic tension is diverted elsewhere, providing a sharp-edged, biting look at a parental relationship drifting apart.
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- The competition will close 29th September 2023 at 23.59 GMT
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