2007, 124 min, Ukraine. Directed by Kira Muratova. Starring: Renata Litvinova, Bogdan Stupka and Natalia Buzko.This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. "Two in One"'s two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality--if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
