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| Arts Calendar / July 3 / Film |
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Drama. Russia, Belgium, Germany, France 2017, 127 min. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring: Maryana Spivak, Sergey Dvoinikov, Djan Badmaev, Evgenia Dmitrieva. In Russian with English subtitles. A Moscow family suffers through a difficult, torturous divorce. Boris and Zhenya are still married, but each of them has begun a new chapter of life, and thus neither is in a hurry to finish with the formalities. Amid their conflicts and mutual demands, Zhenya and Boris are neglecting their only child, 12-year-old Alyosha, who acutely feels just how unnecessary he is to his parents. After yet another argument, Alyosha unexpectedly disappears. “Loveless” has been awarded the jury prize at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. The Guardian, which gave “Loveless” its highest rating, compared the film with Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes from a Marriage,” Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura,” and Michael Haneke’s “Caché.” 35 mm |
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Drama. Australia, Germany 2015, 95 min. Directed by Julian Rosenfeldt. Starring: Cate Blanchett. In English with Russian subtitles. A journey through art history with Cate Blanchett. The two-time Oscar winner appears in 13 different guises, and reads the manifestos of 13 important figures of 20th century art (Malevich, Jarmusch, Kandinsky, Goddard, and others). The film was conceived as an art installation – from 2015 onward, the 130-minute version was shown in museums in Melbourne, Berlin, and New York. For the 2017 Sundance Festival, the film was redone in a theatrical version. 35 mm |
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Drama. France, Belgium 2017, 120 min. Directed by Nicolas Bedos. Starring: Doria Tillier, Nicolas Bedos, Denis Podalydès. In French with Russian subtitles. Victor is a beginning writer, and Sarah is a literature critic. They share a weakness for Joyce and Dostoevsky. They were carefree and easy-going, but their chance meeting in a bar stretches on for 45 long years. How do they deal with success, wealth, and everyday boredom? Who will get what they want, and who will stay in the shadows? This is the story of one family and a great love on the backdrop of Paris’ sun-soaked boulevards. 35 mm |
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Comedy. France 2017, 123 min. Directed by Guillaume Canet. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Philippe Lefebvre. In French with Russian subtitles. Guillaume and Marion are a married couple of actors. Not long ago, he was a young star, and enjoyed the lush life of fame. Now he’s 43, filming cheap TV shows, wearing whatever he finds, and the press has begun to hint that his career is coming to an end. Guillaume is finally defeated by one young actress, who announces that he’s already not “rock’n roll,” and in her list of potential lovers, he’s only one place away from the bottom. Guillaume understands that he has to turn his life around. A mockumentary in which Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard seem to play themselves, while actually taking their media images to a level of absurdity. As the director himself said “If we listen to all sorts of stupid things about us, why not come up with some of them ourselves?” 35 mm |
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Comedy. Great Britain 2017, 86 min. Directed by John Jencks. Starring: Roger Allam, Matthew Modine, Fiona Shaw, Tim McInnery, Lyne Renne, Adrian Bouchet. In English with Russian subtitles. Disgraced poet and theatre critic Ted Wallace gets a strange offer from Jane, his goddaughter. She suggests that he set off for an estate owned by her schoolmate in order to study a series of miraculous hearings that have startled the aristocratic family. Ted agrees, since besides the money in the mansion, there is an unlimited reserve of remarkable whiskey. The task, however, turns out to be more difficult than he suspected…The screen adaptation of Stephen Fry’s bestseller. Featuring Roger Allam, Matthew Modine (“Stranger Things”), and Fiona Shaw. 35 mm |
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