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11:50 | A Faithful Man (L'Homme Fidèle) |
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Comedy, drama, romance. France 2018, 75 min. Directed by Louis Garrel. Starring: Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp. In French with Russian subtitles. Abel (Louis Garrel) is a journalist torn between two women: he lives with Marianne (Laetitia Casta), who once cheated on him with his best friend Paul, and sleeps with Paul’s young sister Eva (Lily-Rose Depp). The complicated situation unfolds into a series of absurd and dramatic events with one of the characters possibly involved in a crime. Ironic about his now habitual role of a modern lover, Garrel has created a true Truffaut-inspired Parisian story about the vicissitudes of love, masterfully scripted by Jean-Claude Carrière who had worked for Louis Bunuel.
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09:20, 00:15. Fantasy, action, adventure. Canada, Argentina, USA 2019, 123 min. Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Rosa Salazar, Mahershala Ali, Eiza Gonzalez, Jennifer Connelly, Lana Condor, Michelle Rodriguez, Ed Skrein, Christoph Waltz. In English with Russian subtitles. The 26th Century. Dr. Ido finds the discarded remains of a cyborg girl, brings her back to life, and gives her a name: Alita. As she comes back to life, she doesn’t remember anything from her previous life. As Alita is relearning how to live, the doctor tries to hide her mysterious past from her, but the girl yearns to know who she is and where she’s from. Unexpectedly, she discovers that she has impressive fighting skills, along with terrifying enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy Alita. And the key to victory lies in her unknown past.
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Biography, drama. Switzerland, Ireland, UK, France, USA 2019, 110 min. Directed by Julian Schnabel. Starring: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac. In English with Russian subtitles. Vincent Van Gogh created one of the most beautiful works of art in history, but for his entire life, he had to overcome skepticism, mockery, illness, and near-poverty, finding no sympathy or understanding on his way. Schnabel, himself an artist, often recreates and in part recreates entirely the last years of Van Gogh’s life onscreen. Thanks to Willem Dafoe’s unbelievable work, for which he received the Volpi Cup at the 2018 Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar, the artist is presented both as a suffering, scattered, and troubled man and as a nearly godlike figure. This new film from director and Oscar nominee Julian Schnabel is a thrilling journey into an artist’s inner world.
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Drama. Russia, Germany, Poland, China, Kazakhstan 2018, 100 min. Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy. Starring: Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, David Alaverdyan, Nurzhamal Madadalieva. In Russian with English subtitles. An uncompromising but deeply human drama from documentary director Sergey Dvortsevoy about a Kyrgyz immigrant girl, trying to survive in Moscow. Samal Yeslyamova won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. Ayka is a young woman who has come to Moscow illegally for work. After giving birth to a child, she leaves him in the maternity ward and sets off on a grueling trip across the city, covered in grey snow and unsparing towards both its own citizens and those from abroad. She hurries from one dirty, difficult job to another, without a home to call her own, hiding from the criminals to whom she is in debt and the cops who are hunting for migrants. For people like her, in this endless snowy hell, there’s neither hope nor the slightest bit of warmth.
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Drama. Lebanon, USA 2018, 121 min. Directed byNadine Labaki. Starring: Nadine Labaki, Zain Al Rafeea, Kawsar Al Hadded, Fadi Yousef, Haita Cedra Izzam. In Arabic and Amharic with Russian subtitles. 12-year-old Zain is growing up on the street, surviving thanks to his sharp mind and working illegally to help an Ethiopian refugee and her young child, when he finally winds up in prison. There, he files suit against his parents — all for the crime of bringing him into the world. In telling the stories of the most downtrodden people, the film surprises with its unexpected humor, tenderness, and poetry. In studying the depths of social injustice, it truly touches and still manages to give a glimmer of hope. The film won the jury prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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| Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) |
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13:50, 19:10. Drama. Spain, France, Italy 2018, 132 min. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring: Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin, Eduard Fernandez, Barbara Lennie, Inma Cuesta. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Laura arrives in her hometown for her sister’s wedding from Argentina, where she has been living for 16 years already. During a boisterous feast, her daughter is kidnapped, and a ransom is placed on her head. Laura’s former beloved, Paco, takes it on herself to help her — and though he’s lived separately for a long time now, his feelings don’t seem to have gone away. In the tense several days following the crime, old hurts and conflicts spark up once again, the personal and the familial become entangled in an unbreakable knot, and carefully-guarded secrets are broken open, threatening to ruin lives and fates.
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20:00 | I Am Not Your Negro |
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Documentary. Switzerland, France, Belgium, USA 2016, 93 min. Directed by Raoul Peck. Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, "Remember This House". Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.
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Biography, history. Ireland, UK, USA 2018, 120 min. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss, Joe Alwyn. In English with Russian subtitles. Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
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11:30, 16:30, 19:15, 21:50. Drama, comedy, biography. USA 2018, 132 min. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons. In English with Russian subtitles. The 46th Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, is one of the most influential politicians of the 20th century, who permanently altered the course of history not just in his own country, but of the entire world. But he wasn’t always like that, when he began his career from the very bottom of the ladder. In his cutting and caustic satire, Adam McKay carefully studies just how persistently and nearly unbeknownst to those around him this quiet Washington bureaucrat climbed the ladder of power, who had his back, whose interests he represented, what brought him to such a career, and how America is dealing with the consequences of his decisions today. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, and Christian Bale already earned a Golden Globe for his starring role, which demanded a complete transformation from him.
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