Brief encountersBrief encounters

Kira Muratova's first solo feature already displays her sui generis approach to cinema, in an impressionistic portrait of women at work and in love. Through an intricate play of flashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveals the tangled romantic triangle that connects a hard-nosed city planner, her free-spirited geologist husband, and the young woman from the countryside whom she hires as her housekeeper. Blending observational realism with striking New Wave₆style experimentation, Muratova crafts a wryly perceptive study of two very different women bound by chance and each navigating her own career, dreams, and disappointments