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14:50. Documentary. France 2007, 74 min. Directed by Olivier Meyrou. In French with Russian subtitles. Olivier Meyrou’s film tells about the last years spent by Yves Saint-Laurent as the creative director of his own fashion house and the creation of his farewell collection for YSL. This is an uncompromising and subjective look at the backstage world and routines of the creative process that destroys the myths about the great couturier, and was violently opposed by Saint-Laurent’s partner, Pierre Berger — after which it was banned from screenings for seven years.
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21:40. Documentary. France 2007, 74 min. Directed by Olivier Meyrou. In French with Russian subtitles. Olivier Meyrou’s film tells about the last years spent by Yves Saint-Laurent as the creative director of his own fashion house and the creation of his farewell collection for YSL. This is an uncompromising and subjective look at the backstage world and routines of the creative process that destroys the myths about the great couturier, and was violently opposed by Saint-Laurent’s partner, Pierre Berger — after which it was banned from screenings for seven years.
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19:00. Action, Comedy. France 2018, 68 min. Directed by Benjamin Combes. Starring: Eric Carlesi, Philippe Allier, Stéphane Asensio. In English with Russian subtitles. Commando Ninja is a English-language French martial arts action comedy film written and directed by Benjamin Combes. It pays homage to 1980s action films such as Commando, The Terminator, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Predator, and American Ninja. John Hunter is Vietnam Green Beret Veteran, Half Commando, Half Ninja, whose daughter has been abducted by a secret Ninja Organization, led by a Central-American dictator, who wants to create a new-world order - through time.
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12:10, 21:30. Drama. Spain 2019, 113 min. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one's own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
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23:40. Biography, Comedy, Crime. Canada, USA 2018, 92 min. Directed by Robert Budreau. Starring: Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong. In English with Russian subtitles. Stockholm is based on the absurd but true story of a 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis. The film follows Lars Nystrom, (Ethan Hawke) who dons a disguise to raid a central Stockholm bank. He then takes hostages in order to spring his pal Gunnar (Mark Strong) from prison. One of the hostages includes Bianca (Noomi Rapace), a wife and mother of two. As hours turn into days, Lars alternates between threatening the hostages and making them feel comfortable and secure. The hostages develop an uneasy relationship with their captor, which is particularly complex for Bianca, who develops a strong bond with Lars as she witnesses his caring nature. This connection gave rise to the psychological phenomenon known as "Stockholm syndrome".
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17:10. Drama, Music. USA 2018, 99 min. Directed by Max Minghella. Starring: Elle Fanning, Agnieszka Grochowska, Archie Madekwe. In English with Russian subtitles. Elle Fanning plays Violet, a lonely teenager getting by in a small European village, where she exists as a ghost in both her broken home and her contemptuous school. She has dreams, though, and wants to be a star — a pop star. Slowly, she tests her strengths at a grungy local bar, singing sad-bastard versions of dance hits, which catch the ear of a washed-up opera singer. Armed with a manager-of-sorts, Violet decides to enter an international singing competition called, you guessed it, Teen Spirit. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, the movie is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.
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16:30, 21:45. Action, Drama, History. Belgium, Luxembourg 2018, 117 min. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, Colin Firth. In English with Russian subtitles. Based on the story of the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster, Kursk follows the final hours of an "unsinkable" Russian nuclear submarine as it sinks to the bottom of the Barents Sea. Some of the crew survives the initial explosion, including officer Mikhail Kalekov (Matthias Schoenaerts), whose pregnant wife (Lea Seydoux) and child are waiting back home. Unfortunately, their rescue is complicated by bureaucracy between Russia, France, Norway and Britain, with British navy chief David Russell (Colin Firth) attempting to convince Russian officials to accept foreign aid.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: An Ideal Husband |
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19:30. A Classic Spring production at the Vaudeville Theatre. An Oscar Wilde play. 156 min. In two acts with one intermission. Directed by Jonathan Church. Starring: Nathaniel Parker, Frances Barber, Freddie Fox, Edward Fox. In English with Russian subtitles. The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. An ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery. "An Ideal Husband is a play that explores hypocrisy and corruption, moral complexity and the potential for redemption. In so many ways it’s a play for today, or could be made to feel that way... Wilde’s epigrams are delivered with a customary zing, they’re great lines and they do their job, but this remains a wearyingly comfortable and bloodless production. It’s not exactly slow but nor does it ever vary its pace." The Stage.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Electra / Orestes |
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20:30. Theatre HD Live in Cinema. Director: Ivo van Hove. Starring: Suliane Brahim, Christophe Montenez, Benjamin Lavernhe. 177 min. In French with Russian subtitles. The Belgian director Ivo van Hove has combined the two plays - Euripides’ “Electra” and “Orestes” - into one uninterrupted staging. Euripides’ “Orestes” picks up five days after the conclusion of “Electra,” but it’s as if no time has passed. After Electra and Orestes conspire to kill their mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover in the first play, the siblings face justice and spiral into further violence in the second. None of the elements that make up Mr. van Hove’s production are especially original on their own. A quartet of percussionists is in the background throughout and creates an ominous soundscape for the action, in a manner reminiscent of classical Japanese theater. The action is interspersed with ritualistic dance scenes led by Electra and the Chorus, who beat their chests and fall repeatedly into the mud. While the choreography was created by Wim Vandekeybus, it is indebted to the raw, primal spasms that drove Ms. Bausch’s dancers to exhaustion.
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