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| | Arts Calendar / December 20 / Film |
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| Belle Epoque (La Belle Époque) |
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13:40. 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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22:00. Drama, Thriller. USA, UK 1999, 169 min. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Leelee Sobieski, Todd Field. In English with Russian subtitles. Bill and Alice Harford are an ideal married couple, living a calm and unperturbed life that lacks for nothing. But one night, the wife admits to her husband that she feels unsatisfied. Addled with jealously, Bill sets off on a journey through the city at night, full of mystery, seduction and forbidden fantasies where the line between dream and reality becomes more and more blurred—until it disappears entirely. The great Stanley Kubrick’s last masterpiece, a provocative study of the depths of the human psyche. Screenings will be preceded by a new 8-minute documentary film, “Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’”
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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09:10, 17:20. Drama. France 2019, 102 min. Directed by Ladj Ly. Starring: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly. In French with Russian subtitles. Stephane begins service in the Montfermeil police. At one point, this Paris banlieue was inhabited by the characters of Hugo’s novel, but now it’s full of migrants. Poverty, crime, and social injustice are as prevalent now as they were 200 years ago, but now with the addition of racial and religious intolerance. In order to stand up to local gangs, the police themselves sometimes resort to less-than-legal methods, and one of those cases begins a down-and-out war on the streets of the neighborhood. The film won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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11:40. 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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12:50. 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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01:30. Action, Thriller, Drama. UK, USA 2019, 99 min. Directed by Zackary Adler. Starring: Gary Oldman, Olga Kurylenko, Amit Shah, Alicia Agneson, Greg Orvis, Craig Conway. In English with Russian subtitles. A powerful crime boss, Mannings, has been arrested, but there’s only one witness available to give a statement: a regular guy named Nick. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to deliver a bomb with poison gas that will kill Nick. After accidentally finding out the truth about her assignment, she saves her victim from certain death. Now the unexpected duo has to challenge a whole army of hired killers. Will they survive the night?
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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12:00. Comedy, Drama. USA 1921, 68 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan. Chaplin’s feature-length directing debut. The Tramp finds an abandoned baby in a garbage can in the slums. At first, he tries to give him away to other people, but nothing comes of his attempts, and he decides to keep the child. Five years later, the Kid and the Tramp become a real family. They try to survive together in the cruel world and even make a little bit of money. One day, the Kid gets sick, and the social services want to separate him from the Tramp upon finding out that he’s an orphan. However, the Tramp doesn’t give up, and in the end, they both find happiness and a real roof over their heads.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: An Ideal Husband |
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19:00. Comedy. UK 2018, 141 min. Directed by Jonathan Church. Starring: Faith Omole, Frances Barber, Sally Bretton. In English with Russian subtitles. An ‘enchantingly comic’ (Independent) and ‘stylish revival’ (Guardian) from director Jonathan Church, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband ‘dynamically re-mints a classic text’, exploring political corruption and morality in this ‘thought-provoking, richly enjoyable production’ (WhatsOnStage). ‘A delicious double act’ (Independent), the enchanting repartee between real-life father & son Edward and Freddie Fox is a joy to behold; and they’re joined on stage by the ‘marvellous’ Nathaniel Parker (Times), ‘brilliant’ Susan Hampshire (Guardian), ‘superb’ Sally Bretton, and ‘thrilling’ Frances Barber (WhatsOnStage). ‘Beautifully played and cast’ (London Theatre), Faith Omole’s ‘delightful’ Mabel Chiltern tops off an array of ‘masterful performances’ (Evening Standard) from a talented company. The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, don’t miss this ‘incredibly funny’ (Telegraph) and ‘triumphant’ (Time Out) production from Classic Spring’s Oscar Wilde season.
Rachmaninov Concert Hall (Philharmonia-2) |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie |
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19:30. Drama, Musical. UK 2018, 154 min (with one intermission). Directed by Jonathan Butterell. Starring: John McCrea, Josie Walker, Tamsin Carroll. In English with Russian subtitles. Inspired by a true story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the new award-winning five-star hit musical for today. Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn’t quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. He is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight. John McCrea, Josie Walker, Tamsin Carroll, Lucie Shorthouse and Phil Nichol lead a twenty-four strong company and an eight-piece band that will ‘sweep you away on a tide of mischief, warmth and exuberance’ (Financial Times). With ‘songs that have the wow factor’ (The Times) by lead singer-songwriter of The Feeling, Dan Gillespie Sells, and ‘hilarious’ book and lyrics ‘with delightful punch’ (Whatsonstage), by writer Tom MacRae, this funny, fabulous, feel-good, musical sensation has been thrilling audiences and critics alike.
Karo 7 Atrium |
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