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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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10:00, 22:10. 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. 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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Drama. USA 2016, 106 min. Directed by Robin Swicord. Starring: Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner, Beverly D’Angelo, Jason O’Mara. In English with Russian subtitles. Howard Wakefield is a successful New York lawyer, faithful husband, loving father of two daughters, and absolutely fed up with the boredom of his everyday life. One day, having chased away a cheeky raccoon who was stopping him from getting home, Howard finds himself in the attic of their abandoned garage and sees his family in the window of their living room. He begins to wonder about what will happen if he doesn’t come home today. Howard decides to stay in the attic and see what happens. A drama by Robin Swicord, screenwriter of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Memoirs of a Geisha.” Bryan Cranston, of “Breaking Bad” fame, stars as Howard.
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