Peremena uchasti - Change of destiny (1987)
By this time, Soviet cinematic bureaucrats didn't know how to tame Muratova, who kept insisting on making films her way. On the one hand, her films flagrantly violated the strictures of Soviet cinema. On the other hand, even the Soviet censors knew that she was a talent to reckon with and could not simply be disregarded. Then they thought of the remedy: she was offered to direct the adaptation of Lermontov's Princess Mary. The logic of it was that adapting a major classic would limit the degree of Muratova's personal vision. When that project fell through, she was offered the adaptation of another literary classic, W. Somerset Maugham's play The Letter. But this film – which was titled Change of Destiny (1987) – became the first to fully employ the more surreal and less narratively coherent style that she became famous for. The literary and "classical" origins of the material didn't do anything to dumb down, soften, or neutralise Muratova's style. What was odd in her previous films became downright absurd, beginning with the opening scene of a murder of a man by his lover repeated three times, with slight changes. Muratova included several truly bizarre scenes in the film, such as a scene of the main protagonist's husband weeping like a baby after hearing the news of his wife being arrested. While the film gains some narrative coherence toward the end, it was beginning of the trend of increasingly bizarre films by Muratova.
My rip, no subs but the hardcoded italian ones. More (ita-subbed, tv-ripped) Muratova's coming (thanks to Jean-Marie...)
Peremena uchasti - I mutamenti del destino (K.Muratova 1987 - TVRip VO Sub ITA).CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi [746.65 Mb] 









I was still doing it the old way, sorry.