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16:30, 19:00. Fantasy, action, adventure. USA 2019, 124 min. Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, June Day, Lee Pace, Annette Bening, Djimon Hounsou, Ben Mendelsohn. In English with Russian subtitles. Air Force pilot Carol Danvers lived a completely normal life until she encountered an alien spaceship during one of her flights. She wound up on another planet, acquired superpowers, and became invulnerable. Together with an elite team of warriors from the powerful Kree race, Carol must defend an intergalactic empire. But when the threat of alien invasion hangs over earth, the heroine returns home, for only she is capable of saving her home planet.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky  |
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14:00 | Captain Morten and The Spider Queen |
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Irish Week. 12th Irish Film Festival. Animation. Estonia, Ireland, Belgium, UK 2018, 79 min. Directed by Kaspar Jancis. In English with Russian subtitles. A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up. Morten builds a toy boat which he crews with insects. This is his escape from the unhappy world of the harbour café where he lives with his aunt Anna.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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18:00 | Conor McGregor: Notorious |
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Irish Week. 12th Irish Film Festival. Documentary. Ireland 2017, 90 min. Directed by Gavin Fitzgerald. In English with Russian subtitles. Filmed over the course of four years, the documentary is a gripping access-all-areas account of McGregor's personal and professional journey from claiming benefits and living in his mum's spare room with his girlfriend to claiming multiple championship belts and 9-figure pay packets. Featuring exclusive interviews, unprecedented access and fight footage, this is the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at a sporting icon and his meteoric rise.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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Irish Week. 12th Irish Film Festival. Drama. Ireland 2018, 96 min. Directed by Dave Tynan. Starring: Sarah Greene, Emmet Kirwan, Seána Kerslake, Ian Lloyd Anderson. In English with Russian subtitles. Over a drug-fuelled weekend in Dublin, Jason reconnects with his estranged brother, a recovering addict living on the streets.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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19:00 | El Ángel (The Angel) |
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Biography, crime, drama. Argentina, Spain 2018, 118 min. Directed by Luis Ortega. Starring: Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín, Daniel Fanego. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Carlitos is a 17-year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling - to be a thief - manifested itself. When he meets Ramon at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and starts showing off to get his attention. Together they will embark on a journey of discoveries, love and crime. Killing is just a random offshoot of the violence, which continues to escalate until Carlitos is finally apprehended. Because of his angelic appearance, the press dubs Carlitos "The Angel of Death." Showered with attention because of his beauty, he becomes an overnight celebrity. Altogether, he is believed to have committed over forty thefts and eleven homicides. Today, after more than 46 years in jail, Carlos Robledo Puch is the longest-serving prisoner in the history of Argentina.
Multimedia Art Museum |
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15:00 | Irish Comedy Shorts 2019 |
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Irish Week. 12th Irish Film Festival. Irish comedy shorts programme of new films of 2017-2018. Weird, funny, awkward – the stories come from all parts of Ireland. You will dive into the magical world of cinema and backstage from the time when Kubrick came to Ireland to shoot a film (Kubrick by Candlelight), you’ll fall in love with house plants (Fern), will choose between a wife and a fridge (Mother), and will finally learn to talk like a human (Wave). All films are shown in English with Russian subtitles.
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Comedy, romance. Italy 2018, 100 min. Directed by Luciano Ligabue. Starring: Stefano Accorsi, Kasia Smutniak, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Walter Leonardi, Filippo Dini. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Riko has been working for thirty years at the sausage factory, but he gets no joy either from work, from his home life with Sara — his gorgeous wife, with whom he has no shortage of fights and mutual critiques — or from his best friends, who are ready to support him in any situation. But only when all this falls apart, taking away the last of his certainty in existence itself, Riko decides to make the changes that he’s been waiting for. His story is a real roller-coaster, taking him to the height of happiness and then dropping him into the deepest pit of desperation, but he gets up again and again — and in the end, he finds happiness thanks to his stubbornness and the help of his wife and friends, who all stay together no matter what.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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16:00 | MALMOE: The Secret Mission |
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Drama, history. South Korea 2019, 135 min. Directed by Uhm Yoo-Na. Starring: Yu Hae-Jin, Yoon Kye-Sang, Kim Hong-Fa, Jo Hyun-Do, Park Ye-Na, Kim Sun-Young. In Korean, Japanese with Russian subtitles. The 1940's, Korea is under Japanese occupation. Korean people are banned from speaking their own language. Pan-Soo (Yu Hae-Jin) has been imprisoned several times and it is nothing special for him to go there. He does not know how to read or write the Korean language. One day, he steals Jung-Hwan’s (Yoon Kye-Sang) bag to help pay for his son's tuition fee. Jung-Hwan is the son of a wealthy Korean family who are pro-Japanese. Yet, Jung-Hwan is a representative of the Korean Language Society. By meeting Jung-Hwan, Pan-Soo's life soon changes. They work together to publish a Korean language dictionary.
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15:00 | Mi Obra Maestra (My Masterpiece) |
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Comedy. Argentina, Spain 2018, 100 min. Directed by Gastón Duprat. Starring: Andrea Acatto, Lucas Aranda, Raúl Arévalo. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Arturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.
Multimedia Art Museum |
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Irish Week. 12th Irish Film Festival. Drama. Ireland 2017, 96 min. Directed by Frank Berry. Starring: Moe Dunford, Lalor Roddy, Dafhyd Flynn, Robbie Walsh. In English with Russian subtitles. An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to three months in prison.
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Drama, romance. Portugal, France, Poland, USA 2016, 75 min. Directed by Gabe Klinger. Starring: Anton Yelchin, Lucie Lucas, Paulo Calatré. In English with Russian subtitles. Jack is a lonely wanderer from America, trying to run away from his problems across the ocean, and Mati is a French archaeology student with her own share of troubles. They meet in foggy Porto and quickly feel an attraction to each other. They spend just one night together, but in their memories — be they joyful or painful and bitter — they will relive the short moments of surprising closeness and passion that bind them together again and again. Young director Gabe Klinger filmed a confession of love to this beautiful Portuguese city, film, and everyone who knows what a broken heart feels like. One of Anton Yelchin’s last film roles.
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23:30 | Promise at Dawn (La Promesse de l’aube) |
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Melodrama. France, Belgium 2017, 131 min. Directed by Eric Barbier. Starring: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. In French with Russian subtitles. On 19 February, as part of Pioner and Mastercard's “Priceless cities in Cinema” festival, Pioner will host the Russian premiere of “Promise at Dawn” (La promesse de l’aube), starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Pierre Niney. This is a film adaptation of Romain Gary’s autobiographical novel, which tells the story of a mother’s boundless love. When the future Goncourt Prize winner was still a child, his mother took it into her head that he would become a diplomat, soldier, and world-famous writer. Regardless of how the people around her would laugh, and how her son sometimes doubted his own abilities, she continued to believe in him steadfastly — and all of her wildest dreams came true. A mother’s love and unconditional support carried Romain through all the trials and tribulations of his life, full of secrets, battles, and unbelievable twists and turns.
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18:30 | The Delinquent Season |
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Irish Week. 12th Irish Film Festival. Drama, romance. Ireland 2018, 103 min. Directed by Mark O'Rowe. Starring: Andrew Scott, Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle, Catherine Walker. In English with Russian subtitles. Two couples (played by Andrew Scott, Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle and Catherine Walker) appear to live in marital bliss until cracks begin to appear in both seemingly steady marriages. The film asks the question 'How well do any of us really know each other' and explores the ideas of love, lust, and family relationships.
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Irish Week. 12th Irish Film Festival. Drama, thriller. UK, Ireland 2018, 97 min. Directed by Andy Tohill, Ryan Tohill. Starring: Moe Dunford, Emily Taaffe, Francis Magee, Lorcan Cranitch. In English with Russian subtitles. After serving 15 years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig.
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17:00 | The Kindergarten Teacher |
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Drama. USA 2018, 97 min. Directed by Sara Colangelo. Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Ato Blankson-Wood. In English with Russian subtitles. Lisa is your average wife and mother, living with her husband and family in the New York suburbs. She's been working as a kindergarten teacher for 20 years now, but her life has turned into a banal routine. Her only source of relief are her poetry courses. But neither the charismatic teacher or her loving husband take Lisa's literary attempts seriously, and her teenage children have completely separated themselves from their mother. One day, she hears one of her five-year-old students mumbling something that sounds to her very much like a brilliant poem. The teacher becomes so excited by the boy and his talents that it turns into a real obsession and leads to dangerous consequences.
Multimedia Art Museum |
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Crime, drama, thriller. USA 2018, 117 min. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring: Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Noel Gugliemi. In English with Russian subtitles. Earl Stone is 80 years old, and he’s alone, poor, and on the brink of total bankruptcy. Unexpectedly, he gets cushy job offer: just drive a car. Upon agreeing, the old man becomes a courier for a Mexican drug cartel without even realizing it. Things are going well for him, the loads are getting bigger and bigger, and the owners even hire a special person to look after Earl. However, he’s not the only one who’s following the new courier. A tough-as-nails DEA agent is paying attention to Earl. And although his money problems are far in the past, he begins to feel the weight of what he’s doing. Will he correct his mistakes in time? Who will catch him first: the law or the merciless hired guns of the drug dealers?
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13:50, 20:50. Drama, musical. USA 2018, 114 min. Directed by Brady Corbet. Starring: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Raffey Cassidy, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Abbott, Stacy Martin. In English with Russian subtitles. An unpredictable thriller drama mixed up with extravagant concert scenes. Vox Lux follows the rise of Celeste from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop super stardom. The film spans 18 years and traces important cultural moments through her eyes, starting in 1999 and concluding in 2017. In 1999, teenage Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survives a violent tragedy. After singing at a memorial service, Celeste transforms into a burgeoning pop star with the help of her songwriter sister (Stacy Martin) and a talent manager (Jude Law). Celeste's meteoric rise to fame and concurrent loss of innocence dovetails with a shattering terrorist attack on the nation, elevating the young powerhouse to a new kind of celebrity: American icon, secular deity, global superstar. By 2017, adult Celeste (Natalie Portman) is mounting a comeback after a scandalous incident that derailed her career…
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17:00 | Yokomichi Yonosuke (A Story of Yonosuke) |
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Shirô Maeda's Film Weekend. Romance, comedy. Japan 2013, 160 min. Directed by Shûichi Okita. Starring: Jun Kunimura, Ayumi Itô, Gô Ayano. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo. During his first days at school, Yonosuke befriends Ippei Kuramochi and Yui Akutsu. Soon after, he joins the Samba club and spends his leisure time learning to dance. In the Samba club, Yonosuke meets Kato, who turns out to be gay. Together, they take a driving class where Yoko, a rich girl, shows interest in Yonosuke. But he hardly notices her advances; he is infatuated with party girl Chiharu, an older woman he met by chance. Parallel to the depiction of this year of ordinary college life, the characters are shown sixteen years later in the year 2003. However, missing from these scenes is Yonosuke, who is said to have become a cameraman after college.
Karo 7 Atrium |
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