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| | Arts Calendar / October 27 / Film |
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| Canaletto & The Art of Venice |
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15:00. Exhibition film. UK 2017, 87 min. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English with Russian subtitles. Exhibition on Screen open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey into the life and art of Venice’s famous view-painter. No artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. The remarkable group of over 200 paintings, drawings and prints on display offer unparalleled insight into the artistry of Canaletto and his contemporaries, and the city he became a master at capturing. The film also offers the chance to step inside two official royal residences - Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle – to learn more about the artist, and Joseph Smith, the man who introduced Canaletto to Britain. Cinema-goers will embark on their very own 21st century Grand Tour, visiting the sites enjoyed by their 18th century counterparts and immortalised in Canaletto’s views - from the Rialto Bridge to the Piazza San Marco, and the Palazzo Ducale to the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Guided by Royal Collection Trust curators and the world’s leading experts in Venetian history, the film is not only a wonderful way to see the exhibition, but an opportunity to get closer to Canaletto and the city that inspired him.
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21:40. Crime, Drama, Thriller. Canada, USA 2019, 121 min. Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz. In English with Russian subtitles. "Joker" centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips' exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham's fracturedsociety. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night...but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
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23:50. Biography, Drama, History. UK 2019, 118 min. Directed by Rupert Goold. Starring: Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock. In English with Russian subtitles. In winter 1968, Hollywood and Broadway legend Judy Garland came to London to perform concerts meant to save her career. 30 years had already passed since her debut in “The Wizard of Oz,” which brought the still-young Judy to the top of show business and simultaneously plunged her into an abyss of drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and disappointment. While she is getting ready to perform, she argues with her managers, charms musicians, and remembers her past with her friends and adoring fans, while her incredible talent, cleverness, and human warmth make people love this fragile woman who had come to know the darkest sides of fame, but nevertheless refused to break down.
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| Maleficent: Mistress of Evil |
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11:40, 14:25. Fantasy, Adventure, Family. USA 2019, 118 min. Directed by Joachim Ronning. Starring: Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elle Fanning, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Ed Skrein, Chiwetel Ejiofor. In English with Russian subtitles. Five years after Princess Aurora cast off the evil charms of her godmother, the enchantress Maleficent, she meets her beautiful prince and plans to live happily ever after with him. Howveer, Maleficent doesn’t trust people or believe in love. Her worst fears come true when the prince’s mother, Queen Ingrith, announces that Aurora will now become her daughter. The great wizard is not ready to accept this, and a war erupts between the two strong women — one that involves not just the kingdom of men, but all the magical worlds that audiences will come to know for the first time.
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| The Imagined Wolf (Myslennyy volk) |
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22:20. Drama, Fantasy. Russia 2019, 70 min. Directed by Valeria Gay-Germanika. Starring: Yulia Vysotskaya, Liza Klimova, Fyodor Lavrov. In Russian with English subtitles. This new film by Valeria Gay-Germanika is a hybrid of a scary fairytale, folk story, and a phantasmagorical game of mother and daughter. On the edge of a pitch-black forest, where terrifying wolves roam, a lonely mother lives in a hut — one who dances in clubs by night and enslaves the few men who happen upon her by day. Her daughter and her small child come to visit in order to convince her to sell the house nd come back to the city, their family, and regular life. Their fears, hurts, and deeply hidden complaints about each other become entwined in a knot which cannot be untangled, only cut apart — or burnt alive along with the rest of them.
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