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Action, adventure, sci-fi. USA 2018, 114 min. Directed by Travis Knight. Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O'Brien, Justin Theroux. In English with Russian subtitles. On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
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Thriller, drama. France 2018, 95 min. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull. In French with Russian subtitles. In 1996, a group of young dancers gets together for a three-day rehearsal in an isolated building. At their going-away party, the atmosphere quickly becomes electrified, and a madness overcomes the attendees. Someone sprinkled drugs in the drinks – but who, and why? To a growing hypnotic rhythm, some feel like they’re in heaven, and others feel like they’ve ended up in a hell of their own hidden fears. A new film by scandalous visionary director Gaspar Noé. Part of the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
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Drama. UK, USA, Hungary 2018, 115 min. Directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring: Keira Knightley, Eleanor Tomlinson, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Aiysha Hart, Denise Gough. In English with Russian subtitles. A young provincial girl gets married to a famous Parisian writer and becomes his “literary slave.” The novels she writes are published under her husband’s name and earn an unexpected level of popularity. But Colette doesn’t like playing the role of the good wife, and she starts a fight for her personal and creative freedom, gaining her own voice in the process.
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19:10 | Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) |
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Drama. Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany 2018, 125 min. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani, Alba Rohrwacher, Sergi López. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Blurring the lines between reality and allegory, Alice Rohrwacher tells the story of a contemporary saint: the young Lazzaro, who is so naive and pure of heart that he is often thought to be a mere fool. In his native village, everything belongs to the cruel “queen of cigarettes,” Marchese De Luna, and the residents are practically her slaves. The Marchese’s son Tancredi runs from home, having engineered his own kidnapping, and a strange friendship strikes up between him and Lazzaro. When he loses track of his friend in the big city, Lazzaro sets off in search of him, making a unique journey through space and time. The film won best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival.
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09:40 | I Can Quit Whenever I Want - Ad Honorem (Smetto quando voglio: Ad honorem) |
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Comedy, action. Italy 2017, 102 min. Directed by Sydney Sibilia. Starring: Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi, Libero De Rienzo, Stefano Fresi, Lorenzo Lavia, Pietro Sermonti. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Pietro and his gang of unusual criminal scientists continue to serve their sentences in various jails. At the same time, the mysterious villain Walter Mercurio is preparing a massive terrorist attack in Rome. Only our heroes can stop him, but of course, nobody believes them. Therefore, they must once again join forces, make a daring and seemingly impossible escape, and become true superheroes in order to save the Eternal City. The final note in Sydney Sibilia’s comedy trilogy that has been an undoubted hit of Italian film distribution.
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Comedy, drama. France 2018, 103 min. Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern. Starring: Jean Dujardin, Yolande Moreau, Jo Dahan. In French with Russian subtitles. Jacques, an ambitious man pushed from the home by his old parents, decides one fine day to become rich and famous by exploiting the vein of cosmetic surgery low cost. To develop his business plan, he took refuge at his sister Monique, director of an Emmaus village. By dint of giving them a better future, he will eventually take a whole group of companions to a clinic in Romania, to all come back more beautiful.
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14:30 | One Nation, One King (Un People et Son Roi) |
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Drama. France 2018, 121 min. Directed by Pierre Schoeller. Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Adele Haenel, Louis Garrel, Laurent Lafitte, Denis Lavant, Vincent Deniard, Olivier Gourmet, Celine Sallette, Johan Libereau. In French with Russian subtitles. A massive historical fresco about the French Revolution. In the center of the action are two young lovers, Basile (Gaspard Ulliel) and Francoise (Adele Haenel), whose fate is literally wrapped up in the wheels of history. The film features the brightest stars in contemporary French film: Louis Garrel (Robespierre), Laurent Lafitte (Louis XVI), Denis Lavant (Marat), and others.
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