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11:30, 14:40. Fantasy/Comedy/Drama. France 2016, 81 min. Directed by Marie Madinier. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Charlotte Le Bon, Xavier Beauvois. In French with Russian subtitles. Professor Quignard and his team of researchers are studying a protein unique to penguins. They are on the verge of a great discovery – their invention could possibly allow them to make a person’s immune system undefeatable. The only thing they need to complete their research is a human trial of their experimental treatment. A young researcher Christophine, secretly in love with the professor, proposes splicing penguin genes into her own genome, in order to help Quignard in his research.
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09:20, 23:20. Drama. France, Germany, Belgium 2016, 130 min. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. In French with Russian subtitles. Michèle (Isabelle Huppert) owns a successful business, has an adult son, and is in a thriving relationship with one of her colleagues. It seems that the healthy rhythm of her life can’t be stopped by anything - until she is unexpectedly raped in her own apartment. When Michèle comes to her senses, rather than rushing to the police, she is overwhelmed by a desire to meet her assailant and take revenge on him herself. When he comes back online, a dangerous game between the two begins, and constantly threatens to spin out of control. Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall,” “Robocop”) returns with a new thriller, a sinister erotic comedy about sadomasocism, suppressed instincts, and social taboos. The film was presented in the concourse programme at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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Drama. France, Germany, Belgium 2016, 130 min. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. In French with Russian subtitles. Michèle (Isabelle Huppert) owns a successful business, has an adult son, and is in a thriving relationship with one of her colleagues. It seems that the healthy rhythm of her life can’t be stopped by anything - until she is unexpectedly raped in her own apartment. When Michèle comes to her senses, rather than rushing to the police, she is overwhelmed by a desire to meet her assailant and take revenge on him herself. When he comes back online, a dangerous game between the two begins, and constantly threatens to spin out of control. Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall,” “Robocop”) returns with a new thriller, a sinister erotic comedy about sadomasocism, suppressed instincts, and social taboos. The film was presented in the concourse programme at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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12:00, 16:20, 19:15. 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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Comedy/Drama/Romance. Spain 2016, 90 min. Directed by Miguel Ángel Lamata. Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Michelle Jenner, Fele Martínez. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Carlos is a man who goes to a coffee shop-library to take a cup, where Irene is reading a book. Not a reason for it, Irene close to Carlos and talks with him, starting a friendship with a little rules: no pasts, no birth names, no modern ways to contact between them (as Internet or similar), and finally not falling in love each other. Calling themselves Hada Chalada ('Crazy Fairy') and Duende Chiflado ('Mad Goblin'), both pass the days walking around the city engaged with magic, surrealist and funnies conversations about life, love and themselves, at the same time that Carlos tries to end his new script with his friend Cristóbal, and eccentric writer obsessed with Japan. But the good feeling between Carlos and Irene ends suddenly when Irene discovers that Carlos is really the husband of María, new lover of Jorge, Irene's boyfriend, who recently split with her in favor of Carlos' wife. When casually the four coincide in the same place, Carlos must be confront his feelings by Irene with...
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21:40, 01:35. 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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Thriller/Drama/Biography. USa, Germany, France 2016, 134 min. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scott Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, Zachary Quinto. In English with Russian subtitles. The story of infamous CIA agent Edward Snowden, who accomplished one of the most massive political reveals in the history of the United States. In June 2013, he revealed secret documents pertaining to the total surveillance by the United States of both American and foreign citizens. After this, he was forced to flee the country and, after several moves, spent three weeks in a Moscow airport. A biographical thriller from director Oliver Stone, based on Luke Harding’s book, “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man,” and Anatoly Kucherena’s “Time of the Octopus.” The role of the agent is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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14:30 | The First Monday in May |
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Documentary. USA 2016, 90 min. Directed by Andrew Rossi. In English with Russian subtitles. Every year, at the beginning of May, the Metropolitan Museum in New York plans one of the biggest events in the fashion world – the Met Gala, dedicated to the biggest exhibit of the year. In 2015, the event was dedicated to the exhibit “China: Through the Looking Glass,” which studied the influence of Chinese culture on the worlds of fashion and art, and which became one of the most-visited exhibits in the history of the Costume Institute. The exhibit also presented a unique opportunity for the American and European cinema worlds: the films in the exposition were chosen personally by Wong Kar Wai. “The First Monday in May” shows one of the most important events in worldwide fashion culture through the eyes of the gala’s organizers – the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour, and the curator of the Costume Institute Andrew Bolton. The gala’s main participants are the world’s leading designers, actors, musicians, and models, including Rihanna, Beyoncé, Sara Jessica Parker, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, and others.
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Thriller. USA 2015, 89 min. Directed by Aaron Kaufman. Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Justin Chatwin, Ashley Greene, Alexis Knapp, Bar Paly, Chris Geere, Nick Thune, Danny Masterson. In English with Russian subtitles. A weekend getaway takes a dangerous turn when a mysterious nightclub owner (Pierce Brosnan) introduces a group of friends to a new designer drug. Stripped of their inhibitions, they start living out their wildest fantasies - but what starts out as a fun night of partying quickly turns deadly, as the island paradise deteriorates into a tropical madhouse.
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Comedy/Drama. USA 2016, 88 min. Directed by Todd Solondz. Starring: Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts, Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn. A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch. A dark comedy by Todd Solondz, with Danny DeVito and Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn, which consists of four stories about different people whose lives were changed for the better, all thanks to one little Dachshund. The film was presented in the official programme at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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