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| | Arts Calendar / November 17 / Film |
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| BritFest 2019: Being Blacker |
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19:00. Documentary. UK 2018, 90 min. Directed by Molly Dineen. In Russian with English subtitles. After a ten-year absence, acclaimed filmmaker Molly Dineen is back with a new feature documentary: Being Blacker; an intimate, 90-minute portrait of Jamaican-born reggae producer, businessman, father, son, and community pillar, Blacker Dread. 40 years after featuring in Dineen’s first film, Blacker invites Dineen to film his mother’s funeral opening the door to his life at a time of great personal crisis. As the story unfolds, and Blacker faces his first prison sentence, he reflects on the issues that have dogged his last 40 years here in the UK; inequality, poverty, crime, and racism, and why he sent his youngest child back to school in Jamaica. Made with intimacy and warmth, the film takes us deep into Blacker’s world and, through his eyes, offers a rarely-heard perspective on life in Britain today.
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| BritFest 2019: Days of the Bagnold Summer |
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17:00. Comedy. UK 2019, 86 min. Directed by Simon Bird. Starring: Tamsin Greig, Rob Brydon, Alice Lowe. In English with Russian subtitles. An idle summer in the lives of a shy fifteen-year-old heavy metal fan and his librarian mother. Sue, 52, works in a library. Her son Daniel, 15, is still at school. This was the summer holidays Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's pregnant new wife in Florida. When they cancel his trip, Sue and Daniel face six long weeks together.
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19:30. Drama. UK 2019, 85 min. Directed by Tom Cullen. Starring: Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass, Sarah Ovens, Tom Cullen. In English with Russian subtitles. Pink Wall is a modern day romance, following the six year relationship of Jenna (Tatiana Maslany) and Leon (Jay Duplass). Intimately told through defining moments along their journey together, the film explores how both friendship and resentments grow as the pressures of adult life confront them.
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09:40, 18:50. Horror. USA 2019, 151 min. Directed by Mike Flanagan. Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Carel Struycken, Jacob Tremblay, Bruce Greenwood, Cliff Curtis. In English with Russian subtitles. A film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller and a continuation of the classic novel, “The Shining.” Thirty years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, an older Danny Torrance continues to carry deep traumas in his heart and tries to drown them with alcohol. When he quits drinking and starts working in a hospice, helping the hopelessly sick, his talent for “shining” begins to show yet again, and Danny gets in touch with Abra, a girl with the same gift. But she is in danger: the evil True Knot organization is after her, whose members feed off the shine like vampires. Together, Danny and Abra decide to face them, but this showdown could be deadly for them.
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11:50. Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi. South Africa, Canada, USA 2014, 97 min. Directed by Phillip Noyce. Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep. In English with Russian subtitles. In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
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23:55. Drama, Comedy. USA 2018, 90 min. Directed by Wayne Roberts. Starring: Johnny Depp, Rosemarie DeWitt, Odessa Young, Danny Huston, Zoey Deutch. In English with Russian subtitles. Richard, a literature professor at a university, finds out that he is terminally ill. He only has half a year left to live. That’s when the strict teacher goes all-out, deciding to permit himself everything that had previously been forbidden. Weed, alcohol, one-night stands, and most importantly, the ability to speak the truth to people’s faces and not fit into the generally accepted rules: all of these become his new favorite pastimes. Richard’s joyous crusade against authority and hypocrisy gives his wife a shock and is met with shouts of joy by his students.
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