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19:00 | XVIII New British Film Festival: Mad to be Normal |
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Drama/Biography. UK 2017, 107 min. Directed by Robert Mullan. Starring: Elisabeth Moss, David Tennant, Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne. During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit. Awards & Festivals: Galway Film Fleadh - Best International Film, Audience Award; Newport Beach International Film Festival - Best Actor. Read more
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19:00 | XVIII New British Film Festival: Mad to be Normal |
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Drama/Biography. UK 2017, 107 min. Directed by Robert Mullan. Starring: Elisabeth Moss, David Tennant, Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne. During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit. Awards & Festivals: Galway Film Fleadh - Best International Film, Audience Award; Newport Beach International Film Festival - Best Actor. Read more
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Detective. UK 2017, 115 min. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Starring: Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close. In English with Russian subtitles. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, private detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia, his client and former lover.
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01:10 | Gauguin – Voyage de Tahiti |
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Drama. France 2017, 102 min. Directed by Edouard Deluc. Starring: Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi. In French with Russian subtitles. Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow him to Paradise Lost, he sets out for Tahiti alone. Once there, he chooses to settle down in Mataiera, a village far away from Papeete, installing himself in a native-made hut. He soon starts working passionately, painting and carving in a style close to the primitive art specific to the island. During his two-year stay the artist will experience poverty, cardiac problems and other displeasures but also happiness in the arms of Tehura, a beautiful young native girl.
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16:10, 01:20. Comedy/Melodrama. France 2017, 113 min. Directed by Lorraine Lévy. Starringt: Omar Sy, Ana Girardot, Alex Lutz, Hélène Vincent, Audrey Dana. In French with Russian subtitles. Pickpocket and thrill-seeker Knock is hiding in the small French village of Saint-Maurice. There, he invents a clever get-rich-quick scheme. Knock decides to pretend to be a doctor and make healthy villagers believe that they are sick with some imaginary diseases – so that he can then cure them. But two unforeseen circumstances get in the way of his meticulous plan: a girl with whom he falls in love, and a friend from his past who finds him and wants to expose his trick. A film adaptation of a place by famous French writer Jules Romain. Omar Sy, of "The Intouchables" fame, stars.
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Animation/Drama. Great Britain, Poland 2017, 95 min. Directed by Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman. Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aidan Turner, Helen McCrory, Chris O'Dowd. In English with Russian subtitles. The first feature-length animated film in which each frame is a separate oil canvas. 800 of Van Gogh's letters, 120 paintings, and their characters meet the people and events from the artist's life, all of which led to its mysterious end. This ambitious project studies the incredible artist’s beautiful mind with the help of his native language of painting.
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| Murder on the Orient Express |
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13:40, 18:20, 20:40, 23:00. Detective/Thriller. USA 2017, 110 min. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring: Johnny Depp, Michael Peña, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Sergey Polunin. In English with Russian subtitles. A group of passengers are traveling across Europe on the luxurious Orient Express. Unexpectedly, one of them is found dead. The famous investigator, Hercule Poirot, is tasked with sorting out this strange case. He must figure out the puzzle before the criminal delivers another blow. A new screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous novel. Hercule Poirot is played by the director himself, Kenneth Branagh. Among the suspects are Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, and even famous ballet dancer Sergey Polunin.
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13:30, 20:30. Detective/Thriller. USA 2017, 120 min. Directed by Oren Moverman. Starring: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Chloë Sevigny. In English with Russian subtitles. Stan, a popular Congressman, holds a dinner with his deadbeat younger brother, Paul, and his wife, Claire. Together, they must discuss how to react after a vicious crime is committed by their sons. The police still don't know who the criminals are, but the guests are certain that the truth will soon come out, and measures must quickly be taken. How far are they ready to go to protect their children?
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11:00, 18:00, 22:45. Action/Fantasy. USA 2017, 130 min. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett. In English with Russian subtitles. Imprisoned, the almighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization.
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21:15 | XVIII New British Film Festival: David Bowie is |
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UK 2014, 95 min. Directed by Hamish Hamilton, Katy Mullan. Described by The Times as “stylish & outrageous” and The Guardian as “a triumph”, the David Bowie is exhibition was the fastest-selling in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s history, featuring a remarkable collection from the David Bowie Archive, including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, music videos, Bowie’s own instruments and album artwork . First released in 2013, this film takes the audience on a fascinating journey through the exhibition with special guests and expert insights revealing the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas. Read more
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16:30 | XVIII New British Film Festival: Waiting for You. Q&A with Charles Garrad |
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Drama. UK, France 2017, 92 min. Directed by Charles Garrad. Starring: Colin Morgan, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Bastien. A reclusive French musician is visited in her remote manor house by a young grieving Englishman who is seeking to uncover secrets about his late father’s past. A lyrical mystery drama, Charles Garrad’s spellbinding feature debut stars Northern Irish actor Colin Morgan (Merlin, Testament of Youth) and one of French cinema’s most celebrated performers, Fanny Ardant (The Woman Next Door). A coming-of-age story filmed on location in the south of France and urban England, it centres on a young man, Paul who – compelled by grief and curiosity – is keen to find out more about his late father’s life. Visiting the mysterious, melancholic Madeleine, a musician, in her magnificently crumbling, secluded manor house, she reveals some disturbing secrets about both his father’s past and his own. Awards & Festivals: Belfast International Film Festival - participation. Read more
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