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20:30 | 15th Annual Israeli Film Festival: Afterthought |
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Drama/Comedy. Israel 2015, 105 min. Directed by Elad Keidan. Starring: Itay Tiran, Uri Klauzner, Michaela Eshet. In Hebrew with Russian subtitles. Haifa’s old town. Uri is coming down from Mount Carmel, in order to board a ship and run away in search of a better life. Moshe, already past his youthful prime, walks the streets in search of his unfaithful wife’s lost earring. Uri is a depressed writer. Moshe is an unlucky businessman. The first is coming down; the second, rising back up again. An existential comedy about people, society, and life. The film was nominated for the Camera d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film will be presented by director Elad Keidan.
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09:10, 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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22:00 | Garage Screen. The Wolfpack |
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Documentary. USA 2015, 83 min. Directed by Crystal Moselle. In English with Russian subtitles. Winner of the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Festival, this film tells the story of the Angulo brothers, isolated in a New York apartment and trying to comprehend the outside world through film. The six Angulo brothers spend their entire lives in isolation from society, confined in their apartment. Other than family members, they have no relationships with other people and almost never leave the apartment. Home-schooled, they learn everything they can about the outside world through films, which they watch and then re-enact using handmade props and costumes, demonstrating a high level of intelligence and creativity. However, after one of the brothers manages to escape, the rest begin anxiously dreaming about freedom too. A debut film by director Crystal Moselle, it is an astounding story of an exotic human phenomenon, based on the vast collection of home videos from the family archive that Moselle researched over the course of a year.
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| Hurricane: A Wind Odyssey (3D) |
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11:10, 14:45. 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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12:50, 22:30. Drama. Spain 2016, 99 min. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring: Adriana Ugarte, Rossy de Palma, Adriana Ugarte, Inma Cuesta, Rossy de Palma, Michelle Jenner, Emma Suárez. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Julieta is just a bit over fifty and lives in Madrid, but is planning to leave her orderly life behind and move to Portugal. Her daughter Antia, only recently having turned eighteen, disappears with no explanation, immediately after her father and Julieta’s husband, Xoan, tragically dies. After twelve years, Julieta finds out by accident that her daughter is still living in Madrid. She moves back into an apartment in the house where she raised Antiaband begins to write her daughter letters, in which she reconstructs the history of her relationship with both her daughter and Xoan, as well as with her own parents. Pedro Almodóvar’s twentieth film, in which he again tackles the familiar subject of a woman’s destiny and the relationship of a mother with her children. The film is based on three stories by Canadian writer and laureate of both the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize, Alice Munro. The film was nominated for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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16:25, 20:30. 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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Comedy. France 2015, 105 min. Directed by Michel Gondry. Starring: Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet, Diane Besnier, Audrey Tautou. In French with Russian subtitles. This is an unbelievable adventure story about two friends, nicknamed “Microbe and Gasoline,” who set off on a summer trip in a handmade car straight out of a fairytale. Here you can find everything that we love Gondry for: lightness and complete freedom, spontaneous humor and playfulness of imagination, and most importantly, a surprising and fragile handmade world, which Gondry first took for a spin in “The Science of Sleep” and “Be Kind Rewind.” “Microbe and Gasoline” has a magical effect of returning us to our lost childhood – a time, when anything was possible, though it may well have been too transient. One of the roles in the film was played by French star Audrey Tautou. The film will be shown in DCP format.
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11:30, 01:40. 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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13:20, 20:20, 23:00. 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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