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Fantasy/Comedy/Drama. France 2016, 81 min. Directed by Marie Madinier. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Charlotte Le Bon, Xavier Beauvois. In French with Russian subtitles. Professor Quignard and his team of researchers are studying a protein unique to penguins. They are on the verge of a great discovery – their invention could possibly allow them to make a person’s immune system undefeatable. The only thing they need to complete their research is a human trial of their experimental treatment. A young researcher Christophine, secretly in love with the professor, proposes splicing penguin genes into her own genome, in order to help Quignard in his research.
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Drama. France, Germany, Belgium 2016, 130 min. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. In French with Russian subtitles. Michèle (Isabelle Huppert) owns a successful business, has an adult son, and is in a thriving relationship with one of her colleagues. It seems that the healthy rhythm of her life can’t be stopped by anything - until she is unexpectedly raped in her own apartment. When Michèle comes to her senses, rather than rushing to the police, she is overwhelmed by a desire to meet her assailant and take revenge on him herself. When he comes back online, a dangerous game between the two begins, and constantly threatens to spin out of control. Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall,” “Robocop”) returns with a new thriller, a sinister erotic comedy about sadomasocism, suppressed instincts, and social taboos. The film was presented in the concourse programme at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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21:00, 21:05. 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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11:50, 16:20, 23:20. Advanture/Fantasy. Great Britain, Belgium, USA 2016, 127 min. Directev by Tim Burton. Starring: Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett. In English with Russian subtitles. In childhood, Jacob often had to listen to his grandfather’s stories about his secret orphanage for strange children. After the grandfather’s death, he stumbles upon a mysterious island, where he discovers that those stories were not made up after all. Gradually, he becomes acquainted with the superpower-possessing children from the orphanage (and also discovers that he himself has similar unusual abilities), as well as uncovers the hidden details of his grandfather’s death. Tim Burton, one of the greatest storytellers in Hollywood, returns with a screen adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ best-selling debut novel. The film’s cinematographer was four-time Oscar nominee Bruno Delbonnel, famous for his work on “Amélie,” “Faust,” and “Inside Llewyn Davis.”
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Short Films. France, Estonia, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Spain 2016, 88 min. Directed by Tomer Sisley, Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn, Martina Plura, Jean-Sebastien Bernard, Fabrice Bracq, Julien Patry, Cecilie McNair, Laurence Arcadias, Juliette Marchand, Erika Lust. In Original language with Russian subtitles. The new short film programme “Sexy Shorts” is made up of eight stories about sex, in the most varied of positions: situational comedies, surreal animations, psychological dramas, erotic études, and film “anecdotes.” Contemporary European film works bolding with a delicate subject, and is not stingy with its jokes – for the world is controlled by laughter just as much as it is by sex!
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12:50, 19:10. Documentary. USA 2016, 90 min. Directed by Andrew Rossi. In English with Russian subtitles. Every year, at the beginning of May, the Metropolitan Museum in New York plans one of the biggest events in the fashion world – the Met Gala, dedicated to the biggest exhibit of the year. In 2015, the event was dedicated to the exhibit “China: Through the Looking Glass,” which studied the influence of Chinese culture on the worlds of fashion and art, and which became one of the most-visited exhibits in the history of the Costume Institute. The exhibit also presented a unique opportunity for the American and European cinema worlds: the films in the exposition were chosen personally by Wong Kar Wai. “The First Monday in May” shows one of the most important events in worldwide fashion culture through the eyes of the gala’s organizers – the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour, and the curator of the Costume Institute Andrew Bolton. The gala’s main participants are the world’s leading designers, actors, musicians, and models, including Rihanna, Beyoncé, Sara Jessica Parker, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, and others.
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Comedy/Drama. USA 2016, 88 min. Directed by Todd Solondz. Starring: Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts, Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn. A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch. A dark comedy by Todd Solondz, with Danny DeVito and Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn, which consists of four stories about different people whose lives were changed for the better, all thanks to one little Dachshund. The film was presented in the official programme at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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