Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova (#1229) Buster Keaton Happily spending his days lecturing

Happily spending his days lecturing at the FBI academy

Henri-Georges Clouzot

In the devastating aftermath

a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences

Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova (#1229) Buster Keaton Happily spending his days lecturingNobody made films like Kira Muratova. Uncompromising and uncategorizable, the Ukrainian iconoclast withstood decades of censorship to realize her singular vision in hypnotically beautiful, expressionistically heightened films that remain unique in their ability to evoke complex interior worlds. Her first two solo features, Brief Encounters and The Long Farewell, are fascinatingly fragmented portraits of women navigating work, romance, and family life