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09:40 | A Faithful Man (L'Homme Fidèle) |
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Comedy, drama, romance. France 2018, 75 min. Directed by Louis Garrel. Starring: Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp. In French with Russian subtitles. Abel (Louis Garrel) is a journalist torn between two women: he lives with Marianne (Laetitia Casta), who once cheated on him with his best friend Paul, and sleeps with Paul’s young sister Eva (Lily-Rose Depp). The complicated situation unfolds into a series of absurd and dramatic events with one of the characters possibly involved in a crime. Ironic about his now habitual role of a modern lover, Garrel has created a true Truffaut-inspired Parisian story about the vicissitudes of love, masterfully scripted by Jean-Claude Carrière who had worked for Louis Bunuel.
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11:30 | Alita: Battle Angel |
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Fantasy, action, adventure. Canada, Argentina, USA 2019, 123 min. Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Rosa Salazar, Mahershala Ali, Eiza Gonzalez, Jennifer Connelly, Lana Condor, Michelle Rodriguez, Ed Skrein, Christoph Waltz. In English with Russian subtitles. The 26th Century. Dr. Ido finds the discarded remains of a cyborg girl, brings her back to life, and gives her a name: Alita. As she comes back to life, she doesn’t remember anything from her previous life. As Alita is relearning how to live, the doctor tries to hide her mysterious past from her, but the girl yearns to know who she is and where she’s from. Unexpectedly, she discovers that she has impressive fighting skills, along with terrifying enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy Alita. And the key to victory lies in her unknown past.
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Festival of New Chinese Cinema. Drama, crime. China 2017, 114 min. Directed by Xiaofeng Li. Starring: Jin Luo, Peng Xin, Jiang Peiyao, Yuan Nie, Jue Huang, Jiaqi Li, Li Fang. In Chinese with Russian subtitles. A decade ago, a medical student and a steelworker become pen-friends when they chance upon the same copy of Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection. Off the page, passion and hatred mingle and two murders are committed, and the two friends part ways. A young police officer starts to investigate, but in vain. A decade later, the young graduate student has become a renowned doctor, and has married his sweetheart. The steelworker returns to the city, bringing with him his handicapped girlfriend. Meanwhile, the police officer can't shake off the unsolved mystery of the murder cases. The last ten years have brought with them great change, each of the characters falling deeper into webs of vice and desire. They must choose the path to salvation, or the road to hell.
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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Drama. Russia, Germany, Poland, China, Kazakhstan 2018, 100 min. Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy. Starring: Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, David Alaverdyan, Nurzhamal Madadalieva. In Russian with English subtitles. An uncompromising but deeply human drama from documentary director Sergey Dvortsevoy about a Kyrgyz immigrant girl, trying to survive in Moscow. Samal Yeslyamova won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. Ayka is a young woman who has come to Moscow illegally for work. After giving birth to a child, she leaves him in the maternity ward and sets off on a grueling trip across the city, covered in grey snow and unsparing towards both its own citizens and those from abroad. She hurries from one dirty, difficult job to another, without a home to call her own, hiding from the criminals to whom she is in debt and the cops who are hunting for migrants. For people like her, in this endless snowy hell, there’s neither hope nor the slightest bit of warmth.
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Festival of New Chinese Cinema. Drama. China 2018, 118 min. Directed by Chengjie Cai. Starring: Tian Tian, Wen Xinyu, Wang Qilin, Han Jianling. In Chinese with Russian subtitles. After losing her house and husband, a rural woman leads a stranded life with her 10-year-old brother-in-law in a modified «recreational vehicle». To find a warm place to survive the cold winter, she pretends to be a shaman who can rid villagers of evil spirits, and ironically, her juggled deceits often become real. However, she soon loses her power to people's greed and apathy, and in meagre attempts of salvation, her life story eventually ends in tragedy and disillusion.
Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Lane |
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