鲜黄衣袂点缀马其顿偏乡的荒芜，与悬崖上野生蜂蜜琼浆的金黄相辉映。喀迪丝是欧洲大地最后一位女采蜂人，与抱病半盲母亲相依为命，依附野蜂为生，坚守「取一半、留一半」黄金定律。游牧民族一家突然欺至，打破宁静生活的不止是七个孩子与一众牲畜的喧闹，还有疯狂掏尽蜂蜜的贪婪，以及破坏生态环境的肆无忌惮。历时三年静观人与蜂和谐共处的隐世生活，以自然曦光与幽微烛照辉映大地，美得教人肃然起敬。获辛丹斯电影节世界纪录片评审团大奖。

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)