This experimental work begins with director's rehearsing his new film Ecstasy Garden. The film crosses back and forth the border between reality and fantasy while lovers, mother and daughter come andgo to the river. Mekong Hotel shot during the flood, intertwines the destruction, politics and drifting dream of future.

智利影史十部最佳影片之一. 和一样都是60年代拉美新电影运动的代表作.　　A young boy mourns the loss of his newborn brother when the baby dies. At the baby's wake, the child is given paper wings to symbolize his union with the angels of heaven. The funeral takes place after the wake turns into a drunken affair. When the baby's paper wings are left behind, the boy tries to give the wings back to his dead brother for fear the child will not go to heaven. The young boy also saves a pigeon from being tortured at the hands of other sadistic children in this feature heavy with symbolic and religious overtones.

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

本片改编自法国当代犯罪小说大师皮耶尔·勒迈特同名小说，与同样改编自同名小说并广受赞誉的电影《天上再见》属同一系列。影片讲述二战前的法国，银行家的女儿玛德莱娜在父亲去世后被亲友陷害失去一切，最终绝地反击大仇得报的故事，由法国国宝级女星芬妮·阿尔丹和因《监护风云》获得凯撒奖最佳女主角的蕾雅·德吕盖携手演绎，完美展现原著中充满浪漫主义的法式复仇故事，并相互映现了20世纪初时局动荡下的个人和国家命运。荣获2023年凯撒奖最佳服装设计奖和美术设计奖提名。