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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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14:00 | Chihayafuru Part II |
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52th Japanese Film Festival. Comedy, drama, romance. Japan 2016, 102 min. Directed by Norihiro Koizumi. Starring: Suzu Hirose, Mone Kamishiraishi, Jun Kunimura, Miyuki Matsuda, Yûki Morinaga. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. Following the karuta tournament in Tokyo in the prequel, Chihaya's team is ready for national championship. However, Chihaya is disappointed to hear that a childhood best friend from whom she drifted apart has quit the game. She pours her time and energy into training for the nationals, but in the process sacrifices a lot within and without.
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16:00 | One Cut of the Dead (Kamera o Tomeru na!) |
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52nd Japanese Film Festival. Comedy, horror. Japan 2017, 96 min. Directed by Shin'ichirô Ueda. Starring: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Hiroshi Ichihara, Mao, Takuya Fujimura. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
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22:40 | 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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18:05 | Tremble All You Want (Katte ni Furuetero) |
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52nd Japanese Film Festival. Drama. Japan 2017, 117 min. Directed by Akiko Ohku. Starring: Kanji Furutachi, Anna Ishibashi, Hairi Katagiri, Takumi Kitamura, Mayu Matsuoka. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. Virgin twenty-something girl is neat, talented and professional, although almost too much of all these. She is an office lady who still romanticizes a school-mate, but has the opportunity to move on and forward with a man at an after-work get-together. She hesitates yearning for the man she loved at school and happens to meet him again soon enough. Will she choose option A, B or something else we can call C?
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