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12:50 | By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu) |
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Drama. France, Belgium 2018, 173 min. Directed by François Ozon. Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud. In French with Russian subtitles. Three men who were sexually abused by the same priest when they were children demand a change in the French church's refusal to acknowledge in its complicity with sexual abuse. They battle scepticism and resistance from their own family members to prevent the priest responsible for their abuse from continuing to work with children.
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Documentary. Great Britain 2012, 83 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. The film presents the celebrated National Gallery in London's exhibit of nine of the extant fifteen paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The film was built around historical background on Leonardo's life, the behind-the-scenes planning of the exhibit, and detailed analysis of the individual paintings. The film's producers invited guest commentators from a wide range of disciplines, including art history, dance, film, photography, and theater. This eclectic mix of expertise was a fitting tribute to the myriad-minded Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci, who was fascinated by every artistic and intellectual discipline of his age.
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09:20 | Piranhas (La Paranza dei Bambini) |
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Drama, crime. Italy 2019, 115 min. Directed by Claudio Giovannesi. Starring: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo, Ciro Vecchione, Ciro Pellechia. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Claudio Giovannesi and Roberto Saviano are the authors behind the TV show Gomorrha (Gomorra), about the everyday lives of the Naples Mafia, and they return once again to the streets of Italy’s criminal capital. But this time, they focus on very young boys, obsessed with the deceptive appeal of life on the other side of the law. They are only 15, and they want money, luxury brands, and new scooters. They play with guns like children, and aren’t afraid of either death or jail. They’re ready to take risks to take power in the criminal district of Sanita. With all the carelessness of youth, they get mixed up in a war that will soon take everything from them, from friendship and love ultimately to life itself. The film won the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.
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Drama. UK, Germany, USA 2019, 108 min. Directed by James Kent. Starring: Keira Knightley, Pandora Colin, Jason Clarke. In English with Russian subtitles. Germany, 1946. One harsh winter, Rachael Morgan joins her husband, Lewis, in bombed-out Hamburg, where the British colonel must bring the city out of ruin. They settle in a luxurious mansion confiscated from a German architect, which is just as full of fresh traces of war as the city’s streets and the country as a whole. To Rachael’s surprise, Lewis allows the previous owner and their daughter to keep living with them under one roof. But can the former enemies forget the hatred that until recently separated them? In the tense atmosphere, full of personal losses and the struggles of the postwar era, enmity and sorrow give way to passion, which is invariably followed by betrayal.
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19:50 | The Sacrifice (Offret) |
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Drama. UK, France, Sweden 1968, 149 min. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall. In Swedish, French, English with Russian subtitles. Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all. "The Sacrifice" was Tarkovsky's third film as a Soviet expatriate, after "Nostalghia" and the documentary "Voyage in Time", and was also his last, as he died shortly after its completion. Like 1972's "Solaris", it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Drama, biography. UK 2018, 122 min. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Starring: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Adele Exarchopoulos, Chulpan Khamatova, Sergei Polunin. In Russian, English and French with Russian subtitles. The story of legendary ballet star Rudolf Nureyev. In the early 1960s, he goes to Paris on tour and becomes the first performer to never come back, refusing to return to the USSR. The film is dedicated to Nureyev’s childhood and youth in Leningrad and his life in Paris, where the dancer found new friends and fans but lost all connection with the things he held dear at home.
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