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After The Long Farewell, Muratova was banned from directing for years; upon her return, she pursued her own cinematic concerns prolifically, in spite of the mercurial cultural and political sphere. “I don’t like conversations about the ‘courage of the artist’, about ‘faithfulness to oneself’. How can you not be faithful to yourself?,”
Sep 20, 2019 · The Long Farewell was Muratova’s most lyrical film, a delicate, heart-breaking portrait of loneliness and unrequited longing, yet was banned for almost twenty years. The Soviet censors thought the film had a “deliberately complicated style”, too much “absorption with formal experiments” and was “lacking in realism and motivation ...
Aug 24, 2023 · “The Long Farewell” provoked such outrage from censors that Muratova, then a new voice in cinema, was stripped of her film degree and prohibited from filmmaking for years.
- Natalia Winkelman
A rift grows between an impulsive single mother and her increasingly resentful teenage son, who wants to live with his father. Another long-banned major early work from the Ukrainian auteur. “A film of tenderness and sorrow, and a tribute to unconventional, independent women ” – Jason Sanders, PFA.
Aug 31, 2023 · The Long Farwell wasn’t publicly shown in the Soviet Union for many years, due to this pseudo-ban, and Muratova was unable to direct a film for 7 years following this. However, the film proved to be influential over the years, through it being distributed among film students, who appreciated its many qualities.
The Long Farewell. With its daring formalist freedom, Kira Muratova’s pointillist family portrait so perplexed and unnerved Soviet censors that it effectively halted her career for years afterward.
By Adrian Martin. The Ukrainian Kira Muratova (1934-2018) was entirely absent from the shake-out of Sight and Sound ’s 2022 ‘Best Films of All Time’ canon poll. That is a crime. But is it really so surprising?
