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11:40, 21:40. Drama, Thriller. USA, UK 1999, 169 min. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Leelee Sobieski, Todd Field. In English with Russian subtitles. Bill and Alice Harford are an ideal married couple, living a calm and unperturbed life that lacks for nothing. But one night, the wife admits to her husband that she feels unsatisfied. Addled with jealously, Bill sets off on a journey through the city at night, full of mystery, seduction and forbidden fantasies where the line between dream and reality becomes more and more blurred—until it disappears entirely. The great Stanley Kubrick’s last masterpiece, a provocative study of the depths of the human psyche. Screenings will be preceded by a new 8-minute documentary film, “Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’”
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky  |
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14:30. Drama. France 2019, 102 min. Directed by Ladj Ly. Starring: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly. In French with Russian subtitles. Stephane begins service in the Montfermeil police. At one point, this Paris banlieue was inhabited by the characters of Hugo’s novel, but now it’s full of migrants. Poverty, crime, and social injustice are as prevalent now as they were 200 years ago, but now with the addition of racial and religious intolerance. In order to stand up to local gangs, the police themselves sometimes resort to less-than-legal methods, and one of those cases begins a down-and-out war on the streets of the neighborhood. The film won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
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17:00, 21:30. Comedy, Drama. USA 1921, 68 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan. Chaplin’s feature-length directing debut. The Tramp finds an abandoned baby in a garbage can in the slums. At first, he tries to give him away to other people, but nothing comes of his attempts, and he decides to keep the child. Five years later, the Kid and the Tramp become a real family. They try to survive together in the cruel world and even make a little bit of money. One day, the Kid gets sick, and the social services want to separate him from the Tramp upon finding out that he’s an orphan. However, the Tramp doesn’t give up, and in the end, they both find happiness and a real roof over their heads.
Illuzion |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: A Flea in Her Ear |
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19:30. Theatre production. A play by Georges Feydeau. 157 min (with no interval). Director: Lilo Baur. Starring: Serge Bagdassarian, Anna Cervinka, Pauline Clement. In French with Russian subtitles. In 1907, « La Puce à l’oreille » [A Flea in Her Ear] marked Feydeau’s triumphant return to vaudeville. Commenting on its impressive construction and incredible inventiveness, a contemporary critic described it as “a fireworks display set off over an anthill” while also expressing enthusiasm for the skill with which it revisits the theme of the double. The primary source of the confusion that prevails throughout the play is a package opened “by mistake” by Raymonde: it contains suspenders sent from the Minet-Galant hotel. Piqued, she convinces herself that her husband is being unfaithful She asks her friend Lucienne to write a letter to invite her husband to a rendezvous in the same hotel. The accomplice’s plan goes terribly wrong because the letter written in her hand falls into those of her own husband, who in turn thinks he is being cheated on... All the characters end up at Le Minet-Galant where the hotel porter, Poche, is a dead ringer for Raymonde’s husband. «La Puce à l’oreille» pushes Feydeau’s ingenious use of stage resources to new limits, introducing an “emergency staircase” and, most notably, a stratagem to make adulterous couples disappear at the slightest alert.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: The Winter's Tale |
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19:30. UK 2015, 166 min (with one intermission). Directed by Rob Ashford. Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Miranda Raison. In English with Russian subtitles. A Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production. Shakespeareʼs timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, following their triumphant staging of Macbeth in Manchester and Manhattan. Judi Dench will play Paulina, Kenneth Branagh will play Leontes.
Karo 7 Atrium |
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