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Documentary. United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, USA 2016, 85 min. Directed by Steven Cantor. In English, Russian and Ukrainian with Russian subtitles. “Dancer” is an ambitious and detailed study of Polunin’s personal and creative life, collected from rare archive materials, family records, and interviews with Polunin, those close to him, and notable ballet professionals. Famous documentary director Steven Cantor focused on Polunin’s extraordinary physical profile and his unique emotional spectrum, which shows through both on stage and in life. A rebel, a genius, and a loner, Polunin created a stir in the ballet world when he became the youngest principal dancer of the London Royal Ballet in history – and then when, at the peak of his career, he unexpectedly left, citing his desire to be independent, free, and not to belong to anyone, even if such a decision would be accompanied by self-destruction. The film also tells about Polunin’s collaboration with famous photographer David LaChapelle, who shot his expressive dancing for the music video for Hozier’s “Take Me To Church,” which became a smash hit practically overnight.
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16:30 | I Can Quit Whenever I Want |
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Comedy. Italy 2014, 105 min. Directed by Sydney Sibilia. Starring: Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Aprea. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Layoffs are beginning at the university, and a talented scientist finds himself among those without work. Along with his former colleagues – linguists, economists, anthropologists, chemists, and archaeologists – he decides to create a criminal gang in order to make money selling a new psychotropic drug. Success comes quickly, and the single problem he has to face is how to direct such a ragtag group. Sydney Sibilia’s Italian comedy hit, reminiscent both of “Breaking Bad” and Guy Ritchie’s films.
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20:15 | I Can Quit Whenever I Want (Smetto Quando Voglio) |
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Comedy. Italy 2014, 105 min. Directed by Sydney Sibilia. Starring: Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Aprea. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Layoffs are beginning at the university, and a talented scientist finds himself among those without work. Along with his former colleagues – linguists, economists, anthropologists, chemists, and archaeologists – he decides to create a criminal gang in order to make money selling a new psychotropic drug. Success comes quickly, and the single problem he has to face is how to direct such a ragtag group. Sydney Sibilia’s Italian comedy hit, reminiscent both of “Breaking Bad” and Guy Ritchie’s films.
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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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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. 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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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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14:10, 23:40. Comedy. France 2017, 123 min. Directed by Guillaume Canet. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Philippe Lefebvre. In French with Russian subtitles. Guillaume and Marion are a married couple of actors. Not long ago, he was a young star, and enjoyed the lush life of fame. Now he’s 43, filming cheap TV shows, wearing whatever he finds, and the press has begun to hint that his career is coming to an end. Guillaume is finally defeated by one young actress, who announces that he’s already not “rock’n roll,” and in her list of potential lovers, he’s only one place away from the bottom. Guillaume understands that he has to turn his life around. A mockumentary in which Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard seem to play themselves, while actually taking their media images to a level of absurdity. As the director himself said “If we listen to all sorts of stupid things about us, why not come up with some of them ourselves?”
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Comedy. France 2017, 123 min. Directed by Guillaume Canet. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Philippe Lefebvre. In French with Russian subtitles. Guillaume and Marion are a married couple of actors. Not long ago, he was a young star, and enjoyed the lush life of fame. Now he’s 43, filming cheap TV shows, wearing whatever he finds, and the press has begun to hint that his career is coming to an end. Guillaume is finally defeated by one young actress, who announces that he’s already not “rock’n roll,” and in her list of potential lovers, he’s only one place away from the bottom. Guillaume understands that he has to turn his life around. A mockumentary in which Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard seem to play themselves, while actually taking their media images to a level of absurdity. As the director himself said “If we listen to all sorts of stupid things about us, why not come up with some of them ourselves?”
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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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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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09:15, 19:05, 23:50. Action/Fantasy. USA 2017, 149 min. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring: Laura Haddock, Mark Wahlberg, Gemma Chan, Anthony Hopkins, John Turturro. In English with Russian subtitles. In Optimus Prime’s absence, war has broken out between humans and the Transformers. The mission to save the world falls to robot mechanic Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), an Autobot named Bumblebee, an English lord (Anthony Hopkins), and an Oxford professor (Laura Haddock). Together, they must find the reason why the Transformers are constantly returning to Earth, and the mystery takes them far into the past – to England, during the time of King Arthur. The fifth part in the fantasy franchise, dedicated to the Transformers’ origin story. For Michael Bay, “The Last Knight” while most likely be the last Transformers film which he directors.
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