Larisa Shepitko had her own method . In Ascent she could use shadows and lights on every character face to illustrate what they represent in the context. The movie was black and white so she could turn every character into a symbol or a concept. Like the interrogator with his skinny structure and pale skin and pale clothes color(Anatoly Solynitsin). She also knew how to use the camera with The main character (the martyr) face among shadows and reflections of week lights.
Earlier in ( cradle of electricity) , a part of two parts movie ( beginning of unknown era) she could tell the story of struggling with faces.
In this movie ( You and me) she was criticizing the bureaucracy and the intellectual class . Showing their emptiness , their loss of direction. And pointlessness. By the contrast of working class _ let's not forget that the traitor who turned into interrogator, was a head of a culture club, in ( you and me) she used two women as example: the first one (Katya) Dr. Peter's ex wife. In the scene which she was talking to his friend and he embarrassed her by asking her to leave him alone , she turned back and walked into the dark corredor which swallowed her with his black clothes to end vanishing in the shining entrance with her light yellow hat and scarf. The other woman is the working woman whom Peter met on the train to Siberia . When the train arrived and everybody went down out of it and she gave her baby to her husband and ran back to Peter. She was wearing jacket with the same color of the train wagon. She ran back to him and in some point. Some moment. The camera just (blurred) the scene got blurry then back clear like , by the contrast of Katya, her presence was getting stronger .
Earlier in ( cradle of electricity) , a part of two parts movie ( beginning of unknown era) she could tell the story of struggling with faces.
In this movie ( You and me) she was criticizing the bureaucracy and the intellectual class . Showing their emptiness , their loss of direction. And pointlessness. By the contrast of working class _ let's not forget that the traitor who turned into interrogator, was a head of a culture club, in ( you and me) she used two women as example: the first one (Katya) Dr. Peter's ex wife. In the scene which she was talking to his friend and he embarrassed her by asking her to leave him alone , she turned back and walked into the dark corredor which swallowed her with his black clothes to end vanishing in the shining entrance with her light yellow hat and scarf. The other woman is the working woman whom Peter met on the train to Siberia . When the train arrived and everybody went down out of it and she gave her baby to her husband and ran back to Peter. She was wearing jacket with the same color of the train wagon. She ran back to him and in some point. Some moment. The camera just (blurred) the scene got blurry then back clear like , by the contrast of Katya, her presence was getting stronger .