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| Wings |
Nadezhda, a decorated fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist, has retired to the quieter, significantly less rewarding career of high school principal and is struggling to stay connected to her grown-up daughter whose politics are decidedly 'new generation'.
This broody drama about a proud woman coping with ageing, loss and disappointment makes evocative use of freeze-frame and point-of-view in the powerful scenes where Nadezhda remembers past war glories or lets her dreams take flight.
A protégé of Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Larisa Shepitko's filmmaking is incredibly assured and her influence on the future films of her husband Elem Klimov (
Come and See) can be detected in this early classic.
