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12:00 | 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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09:30 | Alita: Battle Angel |
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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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19:00 | Ash Is Purest White (Jiang hu er nv) |
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Festival of New Chinese Cinema. Drama, romance. China, France, Japan 2018, 137 min. Directed by Zhangke Jia. Starring: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi'nan Diao, Xiaogang Feng, Zheng Xu, Yibai Zhang. In Chinese with Russian subtitles. A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017. The film revolves around Qiao (Played by Tao Zhao) who is the girlfriend of Bin (Fan Liao), a mobster in a small town, who likes to believe he is a big fish in this small pond. The film shows how the couple drift away along with their youth and optimism, captured in a three act structure, the undying love of Qiao for Bin and how it remains just as strong through the passing of time. Both Qiao and Bin are very well written characters and the cinematography is flawless, on a lighter note Carl and Biddu's 'Kung Fu Fighting' plays a vital role in this movie.
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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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