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20:30. Action, Crime, Thriller. USA 1986, 87 min. Directed by George P. Cosmatos. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni. In English with Russian subtitles. Cobra, film about a tough big-city cop who specializes in finding - and eliminating - psychopathic killers, is a disturbing movie from many points of view: disturbing for the violence it portrays, the ideas it represents and the large number of people who will undoubtedly go to see it and cheer on its dangerous hero. Marion Cobretti, known by the codename Cobra, must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
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21:15, 23:30. Drama. Spain 2019, 113 min. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one's own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
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11:50. Drama, Music. USA 2018, 99 min. Directed by Max Minghella. Starring: Elle Fanning, Agnieszka Grochowska, Archie Madekwe. In English with Russian subtitles. Elle Fanning plays Violet, a lonely teenager getting by in a small European village, where she exists as a ghost in both her broken home and her contemptuous school. She has dreams, though, and wants to be a star — a pop star. Slowly, she tests her strengths at a grungy local bar, singing sad-bastard versions of dance hits, which catch the ear of a washed-up opera singer. Armed with a manager-of-sorts, Violet decides to enter an international singing competition called, you guessed it, Teen Spirit. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, the movie is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Electra / Orestes |
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19:30. Theatre HD Live in Cinema. Director: Ivo van Hove. Starring: Suliane Brahim, Christophe Montenez, Benjamin Lavernhe. 177 min. In French with Russian subtitles. The Belgian director Ivo van Hove has combined the two plays - Euripides’ “Electra” and “Orestes” - into one uninterrupted staging. Euripides’ “Orestes” picks up five days after the conclusion of “Electra,” but it’s as if no time has passed. After Electra and Orestes conspire to kill their mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover in the first play, the siblings face justice and spiral into further violence in the second. None of the elements that make up Mr. van Hove’s production are especially original on their own. A quartet of percussionists is in the background throughout and creates an ominous soundscape for the action, in a manner reminiscent of classical Japanese theater. The action is interspersed with ritualistic dance scenes led by Electra and the Chorus, who beat their chests and fall repeatedly into the mud. While the choreography was created by Wim Vandekeybus, it is indebted to the raw, primal spasms that drove Ms. Bausch’s dancers to exhaustion.
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