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Drama. France, Germany 2016, 113 min. Directed by François Ozon. Starring: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner. In French and German with Russian subtitles. The young Anna and Frantz lived in a small German city and were planning to get married. But into their quiet, idyllic life intruded a gigantic, crazy world – the First World War broke out. Frantz is sent to the front in France, where he, a 23-year-old violinist and lover of Verlaine’s poetry, is killed. The war ends, and Anna’s life has been reduced to supporting her beloved’s aging parents and to her memories of him. One day, she sees a stranger at the cemetery bringing flowers to Frantz’s grave. This man – Adrien – is French, and therefore an enemy. But her meeting him changes her life completely. “Frantz” is a new film by the brilliant François Ozon, who this time shot a stylized black-and-white film on the extremely relevant and painful theme of friends and enemies in a world of endless war and constant reshuffling of warring sides. The world premiere of “Frantz” took place at the most recent Venice Film Festival, where German actress Paula Beer received the Best Young Actor prize for her role as Anna.
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09:20, 16:30. Drama. Great Britain, France, Belgium 2016, 100 min. Directed by Ken Loach. Starring: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy. In English with Russian subtitles. Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain. Awards: Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Palm Dog; Locarno Internatonal Film Festival - Audience Award.
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Drama/Thriller. USA 2016, 109 min. Directed by Daniel Ragussis. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts. In English with Russian subtitles. Idealistic FBI agent Nate Foster goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy.
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11:40 | Juste la fin du Monde |
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Drama. Canada, France 2016, 99 min. Directed by Xavier Dolan. Starring: Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Gaspard Ulliel. In French with Russian subtitles. After 12 years of absence, Louis returns home to inform his family about his terminal illness and try to revive his ruined relationship with them. He is welcomed by his eccentric mother, his sister that he barely knows, his hot-headed brother, and a veritable mountain of hurt feelings and broken dreams. If he can’t fix everything, then there will be no choice but to disappear once again – this time, for good. But hey, this isn’t the end of the world - just a family lunch. A new film by rising independent film star Xavier Dolan, based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce. At the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the film was awarded the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.
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19:00 | XVII New British Film Festival: Sour Grapes |
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Documentary. Great Britain 2016, 85 min. Directed by Reuben Atlas, Jerry Rothwell. In English with Russian subtitles. Rudy Kurniawan was, it was rumoured, a wine savant, had an expert memory for taste, a generous host, offering rare wines from his huge cellar, who in 2006 made 35 million dollars in two wine auctions from the sale of his wine. Then in 2008 a French wine producer, Laurent Ponsot, realised that wine from his family’s domain was being sold from a year they hadn’t produced it. That day, he says, he took the first plane to New York, and thus begun his crusade. Set in the super-fast, super-rich world of LA and New York during the finance boom of the early 2000s, and featuring the obsessive collectors, outraged wine producers, suspect auction houses, and specialist FBI sleuths, Sour Grapes is an ‘Emperor’s new clothes’ fable for the modern age.
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21:00 | XVII New British Film Festival: This Beautiful Fantastic |
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Comedy/Drama. Great Britain 2016, 100 min. Directed by Simon Aboud. Starring: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine. In English with Russian subtitles. A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.
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