It is a great film by a great director.Kira Muratova has never been given her due in the Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.In the Long Good Bye she depicts a seemingly banal story of a jealous and possessive mother (brilliantly acted by Zinaida Sharko) and her poor aloof and lonely son (the only cinematic role by the talented O. Vladimirsky). The story - which is nothing extraordinary in itself - grows into the wonderful and frightening analysis of alienation between genders and generations on the background of the even more frighteningly bleak and dehumanized Soviet reality.Kira Muratova shows the tiny details of everyday Soviet life,and, again , banal as they are ,they are a hair-raising horror.The dialogue is deliberately laconic and void of any sense, showing the ever-growing people's inability to communicate and understand each other.The sound track ( by another under-estimated talent, Oleg Karavaichuk)adds to the atmosphere of hopeless and meaningless existence.Of course,Sasha (the name of the protagonist),will leave his despotic ( but loving!) mother sooner or later, but where for (c)

《圣彼得堡，我爱你》讲述了发生在一座真实且生机勃勃的城市里的七段故事，这些故事让你相信奇迹的存在。这个城市的屋顶可供你跳舞，这个城市的铜像栩栩如生，城市的诗人约瑟夫·布罗茨基可以因拍摄以他为题的一部影片焕发新生。每个短片故事都是关于爱与孤独，希望与好运的讲述。这是一场七位女性导演为涅瓦河上的城市——圣彼得堡献上的镜头盛宴。

前苏联时期，莫斯科某统计局女局长洛德尼拉·伯洛哥菲耶夫娜·卡卢金娜（Alisa Freyndlikh 饰）业务能力极强，事业为上，而形成鲜明对比的则是她的私人生活，爱情之花迟迟没有绽放。对于这个表情肃穆古板的上司，职员们背地里叫他“冷血动物”。相貌老成的统计员安里多勒· 耶里姆多维奇·诺瓦谢利采夫（Andrey Myagkov 饰）于青年时代便才华横溢，虽然独自辛勤抚养两个孩子，却为人乐观，颇受同事喜爱。对于“冷血动物”，诺瓦谢利采夫自命清高，不愿自贬身价求助卡卢金娜。而在卡卢金娜眼里，诺瓦谢利采夫唯唯诺诺，能力平庸，毫无闪光之处。适逢轻工业处处长职务从缺，诺瓦谢利采夫有心补位，却不得不面对这个难缠的“顶头天敌”。 　　正所谓不是冤家不聚头，这样性格有着天壤之别的两人，奇妙的爱情竟在彼此心间萌生……