February 13, 2010

12:30 pm

Chekhovian Motifs
February 13 at 12:30PM
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
free
details here

Kira Muratova’s avant-garde approach to Chekhov—combining themes from the one-act play Tatiana Repina (1889) and short story Difficult People (1886)—transfers the action to contemporary post-Soviet times. Exploiting the sinister side of familial and social relationships in a small Russian village, the film “pushes Muratova’s style to the extreme, following the entire process of a Russian Orthodox marriage in real time…she seems to be making a statement about the trivialization of spirituality”—Ruslan Janumyan. (Kira Muratova, 2002, digital beta transfer from 35 mm, Russian with subtitles, 120 minutes)