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20:50, 22:40. Drama, Crime. Japan, United Kingdom 2019, 108 min. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring: Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Nao Ohmori, Shota Sometani. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. A new film from Japanese cult classic director, the indefatigable experimentalist Takashi Miike, is an explosive mix of crime thriller, romantic melodrama, and black comedy. The young and terminally ill boxer Leo becomes the accidental savior of a call girl, Monica, who found her way into the grasp of the Yakuza. Having not even managed to fall in love at first sight, they end up in a whirlpool of Tokyo’s criminal nightlife. The young people are pursued by corrupt police, drug dealers, and killers sent by the Chinese Triads. Will they live until sunrise and preserve their young love?
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18:10. Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime. USA 2019, 130 min. Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring: Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas, Christopher Plummer. In English with Russian subtitles. A clever contemporary interpretation of a classic detective story in the style of Agatha Christie. The family of a famous detective story author, Harlan Thrombey, gathers together in his house to celebrate the patriarch’s 85th birthday. But in the morning, they find him dead—someone’s stuck a knife in the old man’s throat. The police are joined in the mansion by the curious and gallant detective Benoit Blanc, hired by a family member who preferred to remain unknown but is nevertheless eager to find the truth. Benoit must separate false traces from real ones and untangle a twisted mass of lies in order to find the murderer among all of the deceased writer’s family members and servants: after all, each of them has something to hide.
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03:30, 16:30, 22:15. Comedy. USA 1936, 87 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin. In English with Russian subtitles. With this film, Chaplin bid farewell to silent film, and audiences first heard the voice of the Little Tramp. The Tramp is working on the conveyer belt in a huge factory, and the monotonous work is literally driving him crazy: he winds up in a psychiatric hospital. As he leaves, he looks for a new job, but he is accidentally taken for a Communist agitator and put in jail. Upon his release, the Tramp meets a young orphan girl and becomes her friend and guardian. Together, they try to set themselves up in the tough contemporary world: sometimes, successfully, and other times not. However, the Tramp never loses his strength of spirit, and have survived a multitude of funny adventures, he and the girl ultimately set off on a new road, off into the sunset.
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11:20, 20:50, 00:40. Comedy. France, Belgium, Luxembourg 2019, 86 min. Directed by Christophe Honoré. Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Benjamin Biolay, Vincent Lacoste, Carole Bouquet, Camille Cottin. In French with Russian subtitles. Maria, a university teacher in Paris, loves young men and no-strings-attached sex. She seduces her students and swaps one lover for another until her husband Richard finds out about this hobby. After a family argument, Maria rents a room in a hotel across from their apartment in order to think about what to do next. And while she recalls the story of her and Richard’s love, an unexpected visitor comes to her—followed by another, and yet another. A charming, provocative, and very French comedy about the peculiarities of love and memory.
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16:00. Adventure, Melodrama. USA, UK 2019, 100 min. Directed by Tom Harper. Starring: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Lewin Lloyd, Tim McInnerny. In English with Russian subtitles. In 1862, one of the first female hot air balloon pilots, Amelia Wren, and meteorologist James Glaisher decided to challenge weather—and conservative British society. They set off on a flight at previously untested heights in order to set a new record and make scientific discoveries, while finding their own place in the world that they left down below. But on the way, they will face physical and emotional trials that they have never faced before. The flight becomes a fight for the heroes’ survival and a real adventure for audiences.
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11:30. Comedy, Drama, War. USA 1940, 125 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. In English and Esperanto with Russian subtitles. After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel and his anti-Semitic policies. When the barber, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Hynkel, returns to his quiet neighborhood, he is stunned by the brutal changes and recklessly joins a beautiful girl and her neighbors in rebelling.
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