A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko's films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art. Elem Klimov's grief-stricken elegy Larisa examines the life of his late wife—the film director Larisa Shepitko—through a series of direct-address interviews and photomontages, set against a mournful visual-musical backdrop. Typically, Klimov films his subjects (which include himself and several of Shepitko's collaborators) within a stark, snow-covered forest, its tangled web of trees standing in as metaphorical representation of a perhaps inexpressible suffering, the result of Shepitko's premature death while filming her adaptation of Valentin Rasputin's novella Farewell to Matyora. Interweaving home movie footage with sequences from Shepitko's work (Maya Bulgakova's pensive plane crash reminiscence from Wings takes on several new layers of resonance in this context), Larisa's most powerful passage is its first accompanied by the grandiose final music cue from Shepitko's You and I, Klimov dissolves between a series of personal photographs that encompass Larisa's entire life, from birth to death. This brief symphony of sorrow anticipates the cathartic reverse-motion climax of Klimov's Come and See, though by placing the scene first within Larisa's chronology, Klimov seems to be working against catharsis. The pain is clearly fresh, the wound still festering, and Klimov wants—above all—to capture how deep misery's knife has cut.
主演：达米安·勃纳尔,让娜·巴利巴尔,塞德里克·阿皮耶托,安东尼娅·布雷西,谢里夫·安杜拉,瓦萨尼·恩巴雷克,Serge Postigo,Luu-Ly Réveille,埃里克·莱因哈特,弗朗索瓦·比内尔,Mohamed Brikat,Isma?l Sy Savané,纳马·普雷斯,Djibril Pavadé,Valentina Nesi,席琳·赛莱,Alexandre Bado,Kamelia Pa
主演：阿曼达·塞弗里德,哈里特·桑塞姆·哈里斯,帕芮·马费尔德,达什·米霍克,阿什莉·卡明斯,马修·德尔·内格罗,约翰·道曼,帕奇·德拉奇,尼古拉斯·平诺克,布丽特妮·欧德福特,Callum Vinson,Valentina Tammaro,Philipe D. Preston,Mark R. Anthony
