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12:50, 16:00. Comedy/Drama. USA 2016 ,94 min. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell. In English with Russian subtitles. In the 1930s, young Bronx native Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives in Hollywood in the hopes of finding a job in the film industry, where his uncle Phil (Steve Carell) works. Phil is a well-known Hollywood agent, and Bobby discovers the world of film stars, backstage drama, and the high life, while falling in love with Phil’s secretary (Kristen Stewart). Woody Allen’s 47th full-length film has a full complement of celebrities: Corey Stoll, Parker Posey, Blake Lively, and Sheryl Lee, alongside the aforementioned Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Steve Carell – and opened the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival. The legendary Vittorio Storaro (“Apocalypse Now,” “The Last Emperor,” “Dune”) served as cinematographer.
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11:00, 01:00. Drama. USA 2016, 118 min. Directed by Matt Ross. Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Kathryn Hahn, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso. In English with Russian subtitles. Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
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11:10, 16:50. Documentary. France 2015, 83 min. Directed by Cyril Barbançon. Starring: Kristin Samuelson, Joe Fontana, John Flanders. In Originals with Russian subtitles. Together with NASA scientists, the film’s crew spent a thousand days in the centre of one of the world’s most dangerous environments – an Atlantic hurricane – in order to study its characteristics and understand the essence of what a hurricane is. The result of their work is a unique documentary that describes a journey of over 15,000 kilometres. Winds over 200 kmh, 18 cyclones, 12 countries, ruined forces, and destroyed animal habitats, coral reefs, and overflowing riverbanks – all of these are are shown from the Earth’s surface, from space, through the eyes of animals and on the screens of rescue agencies. The soundtrack was composed by French neoclassical composer Yann Tiersen.
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09:20, 18:30. Comady/Drama/Romance. Ireland, Netherlands, France 2016, 92 min. Directed by Whit Stillman. Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Fry. In English with Russian subtitles. The charming young widow Lady Susan is in a desperate search for a husband – both for herself and for her growing daughter. Hoping to hide herself from the judgmental stares of London society, she sets off to the estate of her brother and sister-in-law, both of whom also have decidedly mixed feelings about her. Her outstanding knack for social scandal introduces chaos into their measured country life: she offends her relatives, repels potential husbands, misleads young suitors, and makes plans for her daughter’s future, all the while managing to turn any situation to her own benefit. The film is based on Jane Austen’s epistolary novel “Lady Susan,” about the customs of British society at the end of the 18th century. Whit Stillman has taken it and freshly reimagined it, with merciless jokes at the expense of the “social order” and its rituals that take the guise of love and friendship in order to hide inequities and weakness. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016.
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15:00 | Manet: Portraying Life HD |
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Documentary. Great Britain 2013, 94 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky, Ben Harding. In English with Russian subtitles. This acclaimed exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts is the first ever retrospective devoted to the portraiture of Edouard Manet. Spanning this enigmatic and, at times, controversial artist’s entire career Manet: Portraying Life will bring together works from across Europe, Asia and the USA. Manet’s portraiture has never been explored in exhibition form, despite it forming around half of his artistic output. He painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of the day, giving life not only to his subjects but also to Parisian society. The exhibition consists of more than 50 works; including portraits of his most frequent sitter, his wife Suzanne Leenhoff, luminaries of the period; Antonin Proust, Émile Zola and Stéphane Mallarmé, along with scenes from everyday life revealing Manet’s forward-thinking, modern approach to portraiture. The cinema event also reveals exclusive behind-the-scenes moments of the exhibition’s preparation, which normally go unseen by the public, and interweaves a detailed, superbly crafted biography of Manet and 19th century Paris. Host Tim Marlow and special guests will look at the craft of one of the all-time great artists.
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Comedy. Italy 2016, 86 min. Directed by Gennaro Nunziante. Starring: Checco Zalone, Eleonora Giovanardi, Sonia Bergamasco. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Checco is born on the privileged side of life in an Italian small town, with a guaranteed job as a public servant. When a new reformist government vows to cut down on bureaucracy, Checco is forced to accept worsening conditions.
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13:15, 18:00, 22:20. Thriller/Drama. South Korea 2016, 144 min. Directed by Chan-wook Park. Starring: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo. In Korean with Russian subtitles. In the Japanese-occupied Korea of the 1930s, a gangster named Graf asks the professional thief Sook-hi to participate in a profitable heist. She must set herself up as a housekeeper in the home of the Japanese aristocrat Hideko, get close to her and her father, and help Graf charm her. The plan must culminate in Hideko being declared insane, which will allow Graf and Sook-hi to take over her fortune. A new psychological thriller from Chan-wook Park, though this time with allusions to the Marquis de Sade – simultaneously radical and full of ironic touches, with all of the genre’s typical clichés. The film premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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Thriller. USA 2016, 127 min. Directed by Brad Furman. Starring: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger. In English with Russian subtitles. Florida, the 1980s. Robert Mazur is a special agent with the American DEA, specializing in drug trafficking into the country. He comes up with a plan to uncover and destroy one of the biggest illegal financial systems in history. In order to carry it out, Robert spends several years working undercover in Columbian kingpin Pablo Escobar’s cartel, posing as a businessman who helps the cartel launder money through his company. Escobar was famous as one of the toughest criminals of the 20th century, who also occupied a position in the Columbian government – and enjoyed popularity among the young and poor as a result. Bryan Cranston, still fresh in our minds from his breakout role as Mr. White of “Breaking Bad,” plays a hero on the side of the law this time. The film is based on the autobiography of Robert Mazur, an agent who played a key role in one of the biggest operations in the history of the American special forces.
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