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09:30, 21:10. Action/Detective. USA 2017, 115 min. Directed by David Leitch. Starring: Sofia Boutella, Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman. In English with Russian subtitles. The story of the best agent in Britain’s MI6, Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron). Besides being a master of spycraft, Lorraine is an unbelievably attractive woman with an explosive personality. On the eve of the attack on the Berlin Wall, Lorraine is sent to Berlin to retrieve a priceless dossier, and she must join forces with deep agent David Percival (James McAvoy). A screen adaptation of the graphic novel “Coldest City,” by the director of “John Wick” and upcoming “Deadpool 2,” David Leitch.
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Drama. USA, United Kingdom, France 2017, 106 min. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring: Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy. In English with Russian subtitles. The beginning of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied soldiers find themselves surrounded by enemy forces. A decision is made to evacuate the soldiers, trapped on the coast of the English Channel and stuck in a hopeless situation, by sea. Christopher Nolan’s first film based on real events, and dedicated to the Dunkirk evacuation, otherwise known as Operation Dynamo. Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy star in the film, after having worked together in the TV show “Peaky Blinders.” Hans Zimmer composed the soundtrack.
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Drama. Great Britain 2016, 89 min. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Bill Fellows. In English with Russian subtitles. Victorian England, 1865. The young Katherine is married off to a withered aristocrat – an embittered, despotic person twice her own age. During one of her husband’s long trips, she meets a young worker on the estate, and a passion between them is born. An adaptation of Nikolay Leskov’s “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,” set in the English provinces during the 19th century. The film’s world premiere took place at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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16:30 | Let’s Go to that Village (Andiamo a Quel Paese) |
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Comedy. Italy 2014, 90 min. Directed by Salvo Ficarra, Valentino Picone. Starring: Salvo Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Tiziana Lodato, Lily Tirinnanzi, Fatima Trotta. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Valentino and Salvo, unemployed in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for a small country called Monteforte, where Valentino was born and have broke up the woman of his dreams. The situation in Monteforte is not promising: people whispered among square, church, bars and barber. The mature age of the villagers, inspire Salvo to live with the retirement of his mother in law, trying to involve every aunt and uncle that own a pension. Welcomed and forced to a strict diet, which keeps them healthy and alive, the Retired delegate life and the withdrawal of the pension to Salvo and Valentino, who buy the first new car and try to enjoy their life finally. But one after another the old guests die, leaving Salvo and Valentino in complete despair. The two do not give up and they invent new solutions to combat the lack of money. The epilogue is bitter and claims the urgency of a generational change of the ruling classes in Italy.
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13:20, 23:40. Drama/Western. USA 2017, 95 min. Directed by Sofia Coppola. Starring: Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman. In English with Russian subtitles. The heat of the American Civil War. Wounded corporal John McBurney escapes the field of battle and hides in the woods. 12-year-old Amy helps him, taking him into a cloistered boarding school for girls not far away and giving him first aid. The residents of the boarding school are none too pleased with this, and the corporal is forced to employ all of his charms so as not to be given up to the Confederates. Gradually, the atmosphere in the school comes to a boil – and everyone dreams of winning the dashing young man’s favor. A dramatic Western by Sofia Coppola, based on a novel by Thomas Cullinan. The film was nominated for a Palme d’Or and won the Best Director prize at the previous Cannes Film Festival. With this, Sofia Coppola become the second woman in history to receive the award.
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14:20 ,19:10, 23:30. Thriller/Fantasy. USA 2017, 96 min. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. Starring: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Abbey Lee, Tom Taylor. In English with Russian subtitles. Roland Deschain, also known as the Gunslinger, sets off for another dimension in search of the legendary Dark Tower – the centre of the Universe, on which a multitude of worlds are hung, as though on an axle. He must beat Walter o’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, who is planning to destroy the Tower and the entire world. The film is based on Stephen King’s series of novels by the same name. Starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.
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Thriller/Action. United Kingdom, Canada, USA 2017, 110 min. Directed by Taylor Sheridan. Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Jon Bernthal, Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene. In English with Russian subtitles. Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) picked a job where nobody would bother him. At the US Fish and Wildlife Service, he works as a game tracker and tries to keep the population of predators within acceptable limits. One day in the wilderness, on the territory of the Wind River Indian Reservation, he finds the maimed body of a young girl. His “catch” interests not just the local police, but the FBI as well, which sends an agent to investigate. Young agent Jane Banner understands that without a guide on these wild lands, her job will be very difficult, and she turns to Lambert for help. Taylor Sheridan’s second feature-length film, who until recently was best known as a screenwriter and actor (with an Oscar nomination for “Hell or High Water”). The film won an “Un certain regard” award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
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09:10 | With Open Arms (À Bras Ouverts) |
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Comedy. France 2017, 92 min. Directed by Philippe de Chauveron. Starring: Christian Clavier, Ary Abittan, Elsa Zylberstein. In French with Russian subtitles. In the fervor of pre-election debates, refined and bourgeois Jean-Étienne Fougerole lets slip on television that his beloved France is open to any immigrants, and that they can find food and shelter anywhere - even at his house. And very soon, a whole gypsy camp forms at his door, headed up by the cheeky Babik. If he doesn’t let them in, he loses the votes of his constituents. His calm family life is over: the uninvited guests swim in his indoor pool, hold concerts in the courtyard, set up camp in the master bathroom, drink through his wine collection, and even make a pass at Jean-Étienne’s wife, the avant-garde artist Daphné. But that’s not the worst of it! Because Jean-Étienne’s only son, Lionel, falls in love with Babik’s daughter, pretty young Lulughia, and is planning on marrying her! Will the hero’s humanist tendencies stand these trials?
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