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Biography, drama. UK, USA 2018, 135 min. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Mike Myers, Ben Hardy, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander. In English with Russian subtitles. The film tells the story of Queen’s origins and path to fantastic fame, from the first meeting of the then-unknown Freddy Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon to their performance at Live Aid, which would go down in the history of rock. At the center of the story is the great and terrible Freddie Mercury himself, brought to life onscreen in a brilliant performance by Rami Malek.
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19:10 | Cold War (Zimna Wojna) |
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Drama. UK, Poland, France 2018, 88 min. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Starring: Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cedric Kahn. In Polish with Russian subtitles. A story of impossible love and an impossible time. They meet in the ruins of postwar Poland. Their upbringings are different and their personalities are incompatible — it seems that they are fatefully mismatched. Nevertheless, they can’t get away from each other. Over the years, they separate and meet over and over again — in Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris… On their love’s path, politics, the whims of fate, and their own shortcomings get in the war, but nothing is capable of destroying the connection between these two hearts.
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Drama. Italy, France 2018, 113 min. Directed by Matteo Garrone. Starring: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi, Francese Acquaroli. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Marcello is a simple, quiet man, whose whole life revolves around his dog grooming salon and his beloved daughter, whom he dreams of taking traveling. But a criminal named Simone, terrorizing the entire neighborhood, suddenly appears before him. Taming him is far harder than even the worst-tempered pitbull. Simone drags Marcello into his dangerous schemes, and one day, this ends in a catastrophe. Having lost everything, Marcello sets out on his own personal vendetta – and there’s nothing more terrifying than a weak man out for revenge.
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20:30 | Mori, The Artist's Habitat (Mori no Iru Basho) |
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52nd Japanese Film Festival. Drama. Japan 2018, 99 min. Directed by Shûichi Okita. Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kirin Kiki. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.
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14:00 | Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) |
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Drama. Japan 2018, 121 min. Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring: Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. “Shoplifters” is a film by today’s leading Japanese director, Hirakazu Koreeda, which won this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes – the biggest award in the film world. A subtle and multi-faceted story about a family and the nature of kinship – which is not always connected with blood relations – set by the director on the outskirts of Tokyo. Here lives a company of rakish thieves that have forged themselves a family and who are taking care of an abandoned girl at the beginning of the film. "Shoplifters", modest and seemingly traditionally filmed (though this quiet film is actually radical in terms of its most important message), is an aesthetic shape-shifter: it is a musing on social mores which often are in direct conflict with actually goodness, and a family film, and an attempt to figure out what familial love really is, and on what basis people will be connected in the future.
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