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| | Arts Calendar / December 18 / Film |
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| Belle Epoque (La Belle Époque) |
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16:30. Melodrama, Comedy. France 2019, 115 min. Directed by Nicolas Bedos. Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Fanny Ardant, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Pierre Arditi, Denis Podalydes, Michael Cohen. In French with Russian subtitles. If you could travel to any time period, which would you choose? Victor, an elderly caricature artist, wanted to return to May 1974, when he first met his future wife Marianne. A special firm organizes these “time travels” with the help of actors, perfectly recreated sets, and costums. For Victor, this escape to the age of his youth becomes salvation from a sad reality, where nobody needs his drawings anymore, his son speaks a different language, and his wife despises him. Even though this return to the past is just an illusion, it is there that he finds a new path to a happy future.
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09:30. 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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22:10. 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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09:10, 14:00. Drama. USA 2019, 144 min. Directed by Edward Norton. Starring: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. In English with Russian subtitles. Edward Norton’s second film as a director and a screen adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel. Lionel Essrog, who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome, is blindly devoted to his guardian, Frank Minna, who dragged him out of an orphanage and set him up with a job as a private detective. When Frank is mysteriously murdered, Lionel takes on the case. Armed only with a few hints and his unfailing logic, full of words, sounds, and images, he follows the threads and uncovers secrets on which the fate of the whole city depends.
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| On a Magical Night (Chambre 212) |
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19:10. 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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12:10. 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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11:50. Biography, Drama, History. USA 2017, 107 min. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring: Katherine Waterston, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Michael Shannon, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tuppence Middleton. In English with Russian subtitles. America, the late 19th century. The two greatest minds of the day, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, are fighting a vicious battle for the right to light the country. Edison, an outstanding entrepreneur and inventor, is ready to do anything to win. But the front lines of the current war see the arrival of a new figure: the brilliant Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, who has his own bones to pick with Edison.
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| The Wild Goose Lake (Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui) |
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16:45. Drama, Crime. China, France 2019, 111 min. Directed by Yi’nan Diao. Starring: Ge Hu, Lun-Mei Kwei, Fan Liao, Regina Wan, Dao Qi, Jue Huang. In Chinese with Russian subtitles. Zenong Zhou is a petty criminal who steals motorbikes. One day, he accidentally kills a policeman and becomes public enemy number 1. When he tries to run away, he crosses paths with another outcast, a prostitute named Aiai Liu. Now Zhou must make a difficult choice between this beautiful stranger, his freedom, and possibly his life. But Aiai Liu holds a secret that he can’t even imagine—and which will change his destiny forever.
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