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00:35, 18:25, 23:10. Drama, Crime. Japan, United Kingdom 2019, 108 min. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring: Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Nao Ohmori, Shota Sometani. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. A new film from Japanese cult classic director, the indefatigable experimentalist Takashi Miike, is an explosive mix of crime thriller, romantic melodrama, and black comedy. The young and terminally ill boxer Leo becomes the accidental savior of a call girl, Monica, who found her way into the grasp of the Yakuza. Having not even managed to fall in love at first sight, they end up in a whirlpool of Tokyo’s criminal nightlife. The young people are pursued by corrupt police, drug dealers, and killers sent by the Chinese Triads. Will they live until sunrise and preserve their young love?
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23:10. 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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00:05. 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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11:40. 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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11:00. Comedy, Drama, War. USA 1940, 125 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. In English and Esperanto with Russian subtitles. After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel and his anti-Semitic policies. When the barber, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Hynkel, returns to his quiet neighborhood, he is stunned by the brutal changes and recklessly joins a beautiful girl and her neighbors in rebelling.
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17:00, 21:30. 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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| The Wild Goose Lake (Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui) |
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09:20. 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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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: The Nutcracker |
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12:30. Ballet in two acts to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. 135 min (with one intermission). Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich. Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich. One of the peaks of Tchaikovsky’s work and the quintessence of his style, The Nutcracker explicitly shows the composer’s approach to the genre. Mostly thanks to Tchaikovsky and Petipa ballet acquired single dramaturgy like symphony music, based on the contrast and interaction of the main themes and images. In over 120 years The Nutcracker has been staged in many great theatres and by many great choreographers. “The brilliant symphony of childhood” (Boris Asaev), The Nutcracker is still one of the most beautiful music fairy tales about good overpowering evil.
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