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14:10 | 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. 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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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. Great Britain 2017, 86 min. Directed by John Jencks. Starring: Roger Allam, Matthew Modine, Fiona Shaw, Tim McInnery, Lyne Renne, Adrian Bouchet. In English with Russian subtitles. Disgraced poet and theatre critic Ted Wallace gets a strange offer from Jane, his goddaughter. She suggests that he set off for an estate owned by her schoolmate in order to study a series of miraculous hearings that have startled the aristocratic family. Ted agrees, since besides the money in the mansion, there is an unlimited reserve of remarkable whiskey. The task, however, turns out to be more difficult than he suspected…The screen adaptation of Stephen Fry’s bestseller. Featuring Roger Allam, Matthew Modine (“Stranger Things”), and Fiona Shaw.
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21:45 | Vacances Françaises: Les Malheurs de Sophie |
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Comedy. France 2016, 106 min. Directed by Christophe Honoré. Starring: Caroline Grant, Anaïs Demoustier, Golshifteh Farahani. In French with Russian subtitles. Since her castle, the little Sophie can not resist the temptation of the forbidden and what she loves most is to do stupid things with her cousin Paul. When her parents decide to join America, Sophie is delighted. A year later, she is back in France with her horrible stepmother, Mrs. Fichini. But Sophie is going to count on the help of her two friends, the little girls and their mother, Madame de Fleurville to escape the clutches of that woman.
Pioner Open Air in Gorky Park |
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21:45 | Vacances Françaises: Un Profil pour Deux |
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Comedy/Romance. France, Belgium, Germany 2017, 99 min. Directed by Stéphane Robelin. Starring: Pierre Richard, Yaniss Lespert, Fanny Valette. In French with Russian subtitles. Pierre, a 75 year old widower, discovers online dating websites. Using the profile picture of his grand daughter's boyfriend, Alex, Pierre meets Flora. Charmed by his elegant conversations, she asks him on a date, face to face. Excited by this adventure, Pierre asks Alex to go in his place.
Pioner Open Air Sokolniki |
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