A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.
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)
主要演员:
Michael Pare .... David Herdeg
Nancy Allen .... Allison Hayes
Eric Christmas .... Dr. James Longstreet
Bobby Di Cicco .... Jim Parker
Louise Latham .... Pamela
Kene Holliday .... Major Clark
Joe Dorsey .... Sheriff Bates
Michael Currie .... Magnussen
Stephen Tobolowsky .... Barney
Gary Brockette .... Adjutant/Andrews
Debra Troyer .... Young Pamela
Miles McNamara .... Youn...