Prize-winning film showing at Moscow festival
Published 31 August, 2007, 08:43
The Moscow Premiere film festival presents the latest film by Ukraine-based director Kira Muratova “Two in One.”
The movie was awarded Russia's prestigious Nika prize as the best film from the CIS and Baltic states.
In most of her movies, including “Two in One”, Muratova creates a bizarre world, inhabited with quirky and grotesque characters.
She even held casting sessions in the streets of her hometown, Odessa, to find unusual people to appear in her latest film.
“Two in One” consists of two novellas by different playwrights. The first story is set in a provincial theatre, where one of the actors commits suicide.
He is found hanging wearing a Pierrot costume and immediately a wave of suspicion and reproaches sweeps the theatre. The viewers are waiting for a pay-off but Muratova, with her sardonic humor, does not offer any.
The second story tells about an ageing playboy, a widowed satyr, once known for his macho magnetism and still desperate to find “the woman of his life.”
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