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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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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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17:00 | In Bed with Victoria |
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Comedy/Drama. France 2016, 97 min. Directed by Justine Triet. Starring: Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud, Laurent Poitrenaux. In French with Russian subtitles. Victoria Spick is a criminal lawyer and single mother, left alone after her divorce with two daughters and desperately trying to start a new life. At a friend’s wedding, she meets Sam – a former client of hers, whom she hires as a caretaker for her children in spite of his dubious past. Then she finds out that at the same party, her old friend Vincent supposedly raped his girlfriend, and is now trying to convince Victoria to be his lawyer. On top of all that, Victoria’s ex-husband has started publishing intimate details from her life on his blog, threatening to harm her professional reputation. A clever tragicomedy teetering on the brink of absurdity by Justine Triet featuring Virginie Efira in the main role, which opened the critics’ week programme at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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09:15 | 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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21:40 | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World |
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Documentary. USA 2016, 98 min. Directed by Werner Herzog. In English with Russian subtitles. In his new documentary film, “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,” which was first shown at the Sundance Festival, Werner Herzog immerses himself in the past, present, and future of the virtual world. With his German meticulousness and romanticism, he tells the story of the Internet, from its pioneers at the University of California to contemporary visionaries like Elon Musk. However, Herzog is not merely interested by the scientific and technological achievements, nor by apocalyptic predictions connected with the development of the World Wide Web - he wants to know why the Internet has so completely changed (and continues to change) our life, to the point that even the Buddhist monks that Herzog met would check their Twitter feeds as soon as they emerged from meditation. Herzog studies the digital landscape with the same passion and dedication with which he crossed the wild landscapes of the Amazon, Sahara, or Antarctica, and tells about the mutual influence of two worlds - the online and the real - and how the latter of which, thanks to the influence of the internet, will never be the same.
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19:00 | XVII New British Film Festival: Adult Life Skills |
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Comedy. Great Britsain 2016, 96 min. Directed by Rachel Tunnard. Starring: Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein. In English with Russian subtitles. Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.
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