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| | Arts Calendar / February 25 / Film |
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| A Faithful Man (L'Homme Fidèle) |
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12:00, 21:45. 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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09:30, 16:40. 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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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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19:30 | Degas: Passion for Perfection |
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#ArtInCinemas. Documentary. UK 2018, 90 min. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English with Russian subtitles. "Exhibition on Screen" journeys from a superb exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, whose extensive collection of Degas’ works is the most representative in Britain, to the streets of Paris. With exclusive access to view rare and diverse works, this film tells the fascinating story of Degas’ pursuit for perfection through both experimentation with new techniques and lessons learnt from studying the past masters.Sometimes frustrated by his own failings, Degas was consumed by obsessive principles and failing eye sight but his determination to capture everyday life was evident in every mark he made. Never fully satisfied, many of Degas’ drawings and sculptures were kept in private during his lifetime but, now through close examination, they can be seen as some of the most beautifully detailed and expressive works in the modern era.
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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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Drama. Belgium, Netherlands 2019, 109 min. Directed by Lukas Dhont. Starring: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Katelijne Damen, Valentijn Dhaenens, Alexia Depicker, Tijmen Govaerts, Nele Hardiman, Oliver Bodart, Alice de Broqueville, Magali Elali. In French, Flemish and English with Russian subtitles. Lara is 15 years old, and she wants to become a ballerina. Along with her father and younger brother, she moves to a new city to try and enter the most famous ballet academy in Belgium. Her dream seems closer than ever to coming true. Lara is ready for strict ballet discipline, but that’s not the only reason that every day becomes a struggle for her. Lara, in fact, was born with a boy’s body. Alongside her punishing lessons, she is going through a grueling physical and emotional process that will ultimately bring her to become her full self.
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11:30 | Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Tied to the Temporal World |
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Animated. Japan 2018, 104 min. Directed by Takahiro Omori, Hideki Ito. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. From early childhood, Natsume was different from the rest: he saw magical creatures coming unseen into our world. He inherited this ability from his grandmother, the great wizard Reiko. It’s not easy to live with such a gift, as these magical creations often come with their fair share of unpleasantness. Natsume has help in dealing with them from his bodyguard spirit, in the form of a sweet kitten. One day, the boy finds a “book of friends” left behind by his grandmother, where she wrote down the names of the spirits that she defeated in duels and mastered. He decides to free them from their curse, but this choice leads to the most unexpected consequences.
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13:30, 20:50. 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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