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)

　　本片聚焦三个家庭——一对热情的新婚夫妇，一对意见不合的父女和一对收拾残局的母子。新婚夫妻感情出现危机，丈夫时常殴打妻子，让岳父岳母很担心女儿的状况，但为何报警无效？不合的父女则是因为女儿爱上了63岁的老男人，这让比女婿还小的父亲如何接受？而第三对则是住院的母亲即将出院，儿子为家里请了一个小保姆，尽管母亲阻止，但他依然爱上了她。三段故事，三种不同的情感与抉择，它们会如何交织在一起？

在豪华灿烂的都市──台北里，有一个受人喜爱的调酒人──小K，凭他天生灵敏的舌头，任何酒的醇度、年份，他都能辨别出来。因此在酒廊行业中，小K成为老板争取的天之骄子。小K自小就是个无依无靠的孤儿，与妹妹「小羽」流浪为生，幸得华盛酒廊老板父女「华克」和「梦娜」收容…… 　　此时蓝毓莉来找一个女孩给他一些费用，这个女孩就是与阿B从小苦到大为别人捡酒瓶和面包屑的妹妹，阿B为自己的恩人老板娘蓝毓莉坐牢，因为她正被丈夫王侠殴打，也算重情重义。 　　出狱后与妹妹相会，在餐厅打工调酒，原来阿B是比较有名的调酒师，在餐厅里是大材小用，蓝毓莉一直很喜欢他，让他再回酒吧调酒，客人喜欢他调的酒，不然生意太萧条，但是阿B不喜欢酒吧里有假酒，做人很正直，可以调出坏酒，可是不愿意做违心的生意，所以引来的麻烦也很多，可是从生意角度，必须有时要做假，与老板娘的价值观大相径庭。 　　 　　魏苏是阿B酒吧...

　　讲述主人公成伟，因无法走出痛失爱妻的悲伤，意欲放弃生命，可当他再次醒来的时候，却发现自己不但没有死，反而回到了认识妻子佳莹以前......