拉莉萨

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 Shepitkos films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art.　　Elem Klimovs 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 Shepitkos 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 Shepitkos premature death while filming her adaptation of Valentin Rasputins novella Farewell to Matyora. Interweaving home movie footage with sequences from Shepitkos work (Maya Bulgakovas pensive plane crash reminiscence from Wings takes on several new layers of resonance in this context), Larisas most powerful passage is its first accompanied by the grandiose final music cue from Shepitkos You and I, Klimov dissolves between a series of personal photographs that encompass Larisas entire life, from birth to death. This brief symphony of sorrow anticipates the cathartic reverse-motion climax of Klimovs Come and See, though by placing the scene first within Larisas 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 miserys knife has cut.