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Drama. Iran 2018, 101 min. Directed by Jafar Panahi. Starring: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedez Erteghaei, Narges Delaram. In Farsi with Russian subtitles. A famous actress gets a desperate message from a provincial girl, asking for help because her conservative parents are keeping her from applying to the conservatory. Together with the director, who plays himself, the film star sets out in search of the girl. They travel by car through the villages, meeting a wide spectrum of different people, listening to their stories and growing sadly and ironically certain that the people are holding onto their old traditions, while only the rarest brave ones decide to even dream about change.
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11:20 | Cold War (Zimna Wojna) |
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Drama. UK, Poland, France 2018, 88 min. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Starring: Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cedric Kahn. In Polish with Russian subtitles. A story of impossible love and an impossible time. They meet in the ruins of postwar Poland. Their upbringings are different and their personalities are incompatible — it seems that they are fatefully mismatched. Nevertheless, they can’t get away from each other. Over the years, they separate and meet over and over again — in Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris… On their love’s path, politics, the whims of fate, and their own shortcomings get in the war, but nothing is capable of destroying the connection between these two hearts.
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| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Crimes of Grindelwald |
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16:30, 00:05. Fantasy, adventure. UK, USA 2018, 134 min. Directed by David Yates. Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Zoe Kravitz, Katherine Waterstone, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller. In English with Russian subtitles. At one point, he helped put the powerful dark wizard Grindelwald behind bars. But the evildoer escaped from prison, and now he is collecting his henchmen to take over the entire Muggle world. Albus Dumbledore asks his former student, Newt, to foil Grindelwald’s evil plans, and he agrees not quite knowing the extent of the terror to which he will subject himself and everyone he loves. The magic world is split in two, and no one will be able to remain neutral. Two years later, we delve into JK Rowling’s magical world once again and will see the new adventures of the magician zoologist, Newt Salamander.
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52nd Japanese Film Festival. Drama, mystery, thriller. Japan 2016, 142 min. Directed by Sang-il Lee. Starring: Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Aoi Miyazaki. In Japanese, English with Russian subtitles. A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
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17th German Film Festival. Germany, Austria 2018, 94 min. Directed by Wolfgang Fischer. Starring: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Wekesa Oduor, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld. In German with Russian subtitles. Rike - 40, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike's everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a fatal decision.
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Drama. UK, Sweden, USA 2017, 100 min. Directed by Bjorn Runge. Starring: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Annie Starke, Elizabeth McGovern. In English with Russian subtitles. Having spent 40 years in a happy marriage, Joe and Joan Castleman complete each other perfectly. He’s easy-going and she’s elegant. He’s vain and she’s modest. He enjoys the life of a great writer, and she puts all her intellect, charm, and diplomacy into the society of genius’ wives. After all, behind every great man stands a great woman. But what are their actual roles? When news breaks about Joe’s Nobel Prize, this whole modest construction is ruined in order to reveal a carefully guarded secret, on which both his literary fame and their long shared life were built.
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17th German Film Festival. Drama. Germany, France 2018, 101 min. Directed by Christian Petzold. Starring: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese. In German with Russian subtitles. When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband - the very man he's impersonating.
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Thriller, drama, crime. USA 2018, 130 min. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Manual Garcia-Rulfo, Cynthia Ervio, Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson, Daniel Kaluuya, Jackie Weaver, Robert Duvall. In English with Russian subtitles. These four women are not connected by anything save the massive debts left by their criminal husbands, who died in a massive robbery. But now Veronica, Alice, Linda, and Belle have very dangerous people coming after them that don’t like to mess around. In order to pay up, the widows decide to organize a robbery originally planned by Veronica’s husband. They take fate into their own hands and make Chicago’s criminal world play by their rules. An exciting, smart, and dark crime thriller from Oscar winner Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn, the author of the best-selling Gone Girl.
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