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11:10, 23:50. Comedy. USA 2017, 119 min. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring: Katherine Waterston, Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Adam Driver. In English with Russian subtitles. After Jimmy Logan gets fired from his job, he concocts a plan to start his life anew. He plans to commit a daring robbery at the biggest NASCAR race of the season, the Coca-Cola 600, which will take place at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concorde, North Carolina. In order to carry out his plan, he needs a crack team, including none other than Joe Bang. But there’s one hitch – Joe’s in prison. Steven Soderbergh’s long-awaited return to the big screen with yet another crazy heist movie, in the vein of “Ocean’s Eleven.” The Logan brothers are played by Channing Tatum and Adam Driver.
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13:30, 19:40. Tragicomedy. France 2017, 88 min. Directed by Amanda Sthers. Starring: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Michael Smiley, Rossy de Palma. In English with Russian subtitles. A wealthy couple, living in Paris, invites big-name guests to a dinner party. Among the invitees are the mayor of London and other aristocrats. Due to a series of coincidences, a total of 13 guests find themselves at the table. The superstitious hostess has no choice but to ask Maria, her maid, to pretend to be her Spanish friend and join the dinner. As Maria sits at the table incognito, a wealthy collector falls in love with her. A tragicomedy by Amanda Sthers, featuring Toni Collette (Golden Globe for her role in “United States of Tara”) and Rossy de Palma, muse to Pedro Almodovar (“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” “Broken Embraces,” “Julieta”).
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13:40, 19:10, 21:30. Detective/Drama/Horror. USA 2017, 120 min. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Brian Gleeson, Michelle Pfeiffer. In English with Russian subtitles. A young woman lives with her husband in their suburban home. She renovated the house herself, meticulously planning out every single detail in the hopes of creating the perfect place to live. One day, a stranger shows up at her doorstep in need of a place to stay, and brings his fearsome wife with him. The unwelcome guests worry the homemaker, and her anxiety only grows when she finds a picture of her own husband in the man’s bag. Darren Aronofsky’s new horror-thriller, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival a mere several days before its Russian release.
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23:45 | The Minister (Il Ministro) |
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Comedy. Italy 2016, 104 min. Directed by Giorgio Amato. Starring: Gianmarco Tognazzi, Alessia Barela, Edoardo Pesce, Giorgio Amato. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Franco Lucci, an entrepreneur on the verge of bankruptcy, finds his only chance to save his business: asking a government minister – and old friend of his – for help. He invites him to a dinner party, and everything must be perfect: the best wine, a big bribe, and a charming girl…for the minister to take to bed. But suddenly, something goes awry with that last item on the list.
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Tragicomedy. Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark 2017, 142 min. Directed by Ruben Östlund. Starring: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary. In original with Russian subtitles. Christian (Claes Bang) is the curator of the recently-opened Stockholm Museum of Contemporary Art. He is working on an installation by an Argentinian artist called “The Square,” which has been declared a “territory for altruism.” But when Christian’s wallet and smartphone are stolen, he quickly forgets about the project’s humanistic goal. A caustic existential satire of contemporary art and the “creative class,” winner of the Palme d’Or at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.
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Animation/Fantasy. Japan 2016, 106 min. Directed by Makoto Shinkai. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. A story about a Tokyo teenager and a provincial girl who discover that a strange and inexplicable bond exists between them. In their dreams, they change bodies and live each other’s lives. But one day, this ability disappears as quickly as it appeared. Taki decides to search out Mitsuha, no matter what, but will they be able to recognize each other in real life? A new film by the hopeless romantic of Japanese animation Makoto Shinkai (“5 Centimeters per Second,” “The Garden of Words”).
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