A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko's films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art. Elem Klimov's grief-stricken elegy Larisa examines the life of his late wife—the film director Larisa Shepitko—through a series of direct-address interviews and photomontages, set against a mournful visual-musical backdrop. Typically, Klimov films his subjects (which include himself and several of Shepitko's collaborators) within a stark, snow-covered forest, its tangled web of trees standing in as metaphorical representation of a perhaps inexpressible suffering, the result of Shepitko's premature death while filming her adaptation of Valentin Rasputin's novella Farewell to Matyora. Interweaving home movie footage with sequences from Shepitko's work (Maya Bulgakova's pensive plane crash reminiscence from Wings takes on several new layers of resonance in this context), Larisa's most powerful passage is its first: accompa nied by the grandiose fina l music cue f rom Shepitk o's  You and I, Kl imov dissolv es betwee n a series of personal  photogr aphs that e ncompass L arisa&amp ;#39;s  entire life,  from birth to death.  This brief symp hony of sorrow ant icipates th e cathart ic reverse-mot ion clim ax of Klimov&am p;#39;s C ome and See, though by  placing the s cene firs t within  Larisa&# 39;s chronolo gy, Kl imov se ems to be work ing agains t catharsi s. The pain  is clearly fr esh, the woun d still fe stering, an d Klimov w ants—above all—to captur e how deep mis ery&#3 9;s knife ha s cut.　　A lo ving film  tribute to Russ ian film maker Lari sa Shepitko, who died t ragically in a car acci dent