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17:00, 21:10. 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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11:00, 19:10, 01:35. 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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13:30 | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children |
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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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11:45, 01:40. 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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20:00 | XVII New British Film Festival: I, Daniel Blake |
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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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