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)

天生下肢瘫痪的少年是个漫画人，他把自己和残疾好友作为角色画了一部漫画。故事大部分是他漫画故事里的内容：两个残疾青少年寻找活下去的理由， 和一个从前是消防队员的坚强很有男子汉气概的轮椅杀手搞在了一起。两...

7岁的凡尼斯（乔治斯·科拉菲斯 Georges Corraface 饰）与家人生活在伊斯坦布尔，他的祖父拥有一家香料店，在那里，凡尼斯度过了他的童年。祖父通过类比香料的特性来教授凡尼斯关于生命、宇宙和地理的各种知识，年幼的凡尼斯还爱上了与他一起玩耍的土耳其女孩，姗美。然而不久后，政治的暴乱破坏了美满的家庭，凡尼斯和父母因持有希腊国籍而被驱逐出镜，迁往雅典，身为土耳其公民的祖父则得以留下。时光飞逝，不惑之年的凡尼斯已经成为了一名天文学教授，备受尊重，但他却觉得生活中充满迷茫，似乎总是缺少那么一点香料。离开家乡的35年来，他依然渴望着回到儿时的故乡，渴望着再见到那个美好的女孩……　　本片根据编剧、导演Tassos Boulmetis的真实经历改编。

　　Kala azar describes of a place that cannot sustain animal life any longer. In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a www.molikan.com meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species. A film about existence, on the boundaries between living and dead, human and non-human.

皮尔斯·布鲁斯南将出演动作新片[异类](The Misfits，暂译)。本片由雷尼·哈林执导，故事发生在中东，讲述了一名犯罪高手在一次重大的黄金盗窃案中被捕的故事。该片将于本月在阿布扎比开机。