A new Kira Muratova's movie with english subtitles!Igorert@KG escribió:I chose The Tuner as the first Muratova upload for a couple of reasons but mostly because I think it is probably the best introduction to her oeuvre as the most accessible of her recent films. It has an easily discernible story that is fairly easy to follow even if the story is all you are after. Despite that, the film still has all the characteristic gimmicks of her style so you'll recognize them immediately in her other films and will come to love and appreciate for their own sakeThe Tuner is very nicely shot in gorgeous black&white and has some truly superb acting by both the old generation of venerated russian actors (Nina Ruslanova, Alla Demidova), the new generation (Georgi Deliyev - a professional mime in Vyacheslav Polunin's excellent troupe, incomparable character credited only as Jean-Daniel and, remarkably, the infamous diva of modern russian cinema Renata Litvinova - I'm convinced that Muratova is the only director so far who has managed to put Renatova's exaggerated artificiality to proper use) and a cast of non-professional actors that Muratova always goes to extreme pains to find and audition.
Some excerpts from review @ Kinokultura:
At the heart of Kira Muratova’s newest film, The Tuner (Nastroishchik, 2004), is her characteristic and enduring love of predation—predation for its own sake. Of course, any talk of “the heart of Muratova’s work” is a judgment of anatomy rather than sentiment, as any admirer would attest. With The Tuner, she has produced an extraordinary new film that offers a complex assessment of the human subject, civilization, and the creative act.
As those who follow Muratova will know, and as she herself has commented, her work divides into two categories: the plotless and the plotted. The plotless, a rarer category, arguably includes Asthenic Syndrome and Passions. Among the plotted films are the two early, provincial melodramas, as well as Sentimental Policeman, Three Stories, and Chekhovian Motifs. Muratova’s latest work, The Tuner, continues this dominant, plotted lineage, one that is more merciful to her audience [...]
The hero of the day is Igorert@KaraGarga, who says:
So much respect to him. KG is becoming an amazing community.The is not my rip (I have a DVD with a badly screwed NTSC transfer that makes trying to rip it a futile idea); this is a rip of the PAL edition and is of reasonable quality though not really perfect - unfortunately, the quality of the PAL DVD itself is not ideal either. Despite having 1 warp-point GMC, the rip is standalone-safe - it even plays on Philips DVP-642. I bought an NTSC DVD of this for the sole purpose of offering you the English subtitles; I then spent close to 5 hours fixing them up in more places that I cared to count. So you better enjoy the movie given how much time I spent on it.
Nastroyschik(Kira Muratova) 2005.avi 
English subs
But I do think Muratova's cinema is at home here... and then, I must admit it, I fill more uneasy to post in English in the other sections...
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