The Cinema of Kira Muratova

ira Muratova is one of a small but immensely talented group of Soviet women directors who began their careers in the 1960s and early 1970s.1 Like most Russian women filmmakers and writers of her generation, Muratova is uncomfortable with the terms feminism and film. Nevertheless, part of Muratova's uniqueness as an artist lies in qualities attributable to her woman's eye and ear, and to her knowledge of women's lives. Muratova's films are distinguished by their particularly penetrating, often merciless gaze at her female characters, and by her keen ear for the heteroglossia of Russian, including various forms of female language often heard on the street, the workplace, or in the home, but, until recently, seldom in Soviet film or literature

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