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Drama/Romance/Sci-Fi. Spain, Colombia 2017, 95 min. Directed by Hatem Khraiche. Starring: Clara Lago, Álex González, Andrés Parra. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Helena is a young girl who spent all her life in a space pod just after her birth, traveling from Earth to a distant planet where she will reunite with others space colonials, with the voice of the on-board computer as only one company. Arriving to a space station for maintenance works, Helena meets Álex, the repairman, falling in love with him quickly. But Álex, still traumatized by the ghosts of his own past, decides some days later after to meet Helena break all rules and reveal her the truth: that she is part of a secret experiment to test the effects in the human body of an elongated space travel, and that she was offered by her fathers as well another babies, in the hope to runaway from a progressively more polluted and radioactive planet Earth. Escaping from the fake space pod, Helena exits to the world and discovering it at the side of Álex, being both prosecuted by Hugo, director of the project, who searches the way to keep all project in secret. But during the connivance...
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19:10 | Divorce French Style (Papa ou Maman 2) |
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Comedy. France, Belgium 2016, 86 min. Directed by Martin Bourboulon. Starring: Laurent Lafitte, Marina Fois, Alexandre Desrousseaux, Anna Lemarchand. In French with Russian subtitles. Vincent and Florence have divorced, but live across the street from each other. Each has a new partner, and their four children must run from mama to papa and back. In the end, they’re the ones who get involved in the battle between their parents, in a decision to reunite them. Martin Bourboulon’s new film, continuing the “Papa ou maman” series.
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17:00, 21:30. 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.”
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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.”
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21:00, 01:15. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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15:00, 19:30, 00:05. Comedy/Melodrama. USA, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium 2006-2016, 91 min. In Original languages with Russian subtitles. Seven films in a new collection of romantic comedies – these are peerless examples of the genre, seasoned with fantasy, fresh humor, a healthy helping of eroticism, and harmless fun. Desperate Belgian clerks go dancing, lovesick Americans check the strength of a telephone line and set off for a party, clever Brits rework their professions, Frenchmen experiment with conception, and a Spanish daredevil really breaks his back!
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Adventure/Fantasy. USA 2017, 135 min. Directed by Patty Jenkins. Starring: Gal Gadot, Robin Wright, Chris Pine, David Thewlis. In English with Russian subtitles. Diana, Princess of the Amazons, lived her whole life on the island Temiskir, isolated from the outside world. From childhood, she was trained to become an undefeatable warrior, but simultaneously hid from her the truth about the great power hidden within her. At the beginning of the 20th century, an American military pilot crashes on the shores of the island, and Diana learns of the First World War through him. Unable to sit in place while innocent people perish, Diana leaves the island, sure that she can put an end to the war. The fourth film in the expanded DC universe, which began production in 1998. After a long selection process, Warner Bros. selected Patty Jenkins to direct – the creator of the film “Monster,” for which she received the “Independent Spirit” prize, and the pilot for “The Killing,” for which she received an Emmy nomination.
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