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 Shepitko's films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art. Elem Klimov's 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 Shepitko's 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 Shepitko's premature death while filming her adaptation of Valentin Rasputin's novella Farewell to Matyora. Interweaving home movie footage with sequences from Shepitko's work (Maya Bulgakova's pensive plane crash reminiscence from Wings takes on several new layers of resonance in this context), Larisa's most powerful passage is its first accompanied by the grandiose final music cue from Shepitko's You and I, Klimov dissolves between a series of personal photographs that encompass Larisa's entire life, from birth to death. This brief symphony of sorrow anticipates the cathartic reverse-motion climax of Klimov's Come and See, though by placing the scene first within Larisa's 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 misery's knife has cut.
西元814年欧洲中古时代,德国一户平凡家庭。因为当时女性饱受社会的歧视与种种限制,约翰娜(乔娜·沃卡莱克 Johanna Wokalek饰)从小就在教士父亲重男轻女的观念下长大。虽然父亲反对,但聪慧好学的约翰娜还是得到了希腊教士的精心教导,掌握了拉丁文和希腊文。约翰娜渐渐长大,并与格罗尔德伯爵(大卫·文翰 David Wenham饰)相爱。不久战争爆发,格罗尔德奔赴前线。死里逃生的约翰娜在逃亡中凭借着过人的胆识和智慧,女扮男装顶替早逝的哥哥进入修道院,并在那里行医救治穷人。很快,约汉娜以高明的医术获得教皇的信任,却随即卷入了政治宗教的危险漩涡之中。在一连串政治权力的斗争中,约翰娜终于登上教廷的最高位置,成为万众景仰的一代教皇。她隐藏女性身份统治天主教会长达两年之久,直到因热恋怀孕而被斗争下台。
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