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20:00 | XVIII New British Film Festival: Final Portrait |
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Comedy/Drama/Biography. UK 2017, 90 min. Directed by Stanley Tucci. Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud. In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, the American writer and art-lover James Lord is asked by his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, Giacometti assures Lord, will take only a few days. Flattered and intrigued, Lord agrees. So begins not only the story of an offbeat friendship, but, seen through the eyes of Lord, an insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and, at times, downright chaos of the artistic process. Final Portrait is a portrait of a genius, and of a friendship between two men who are utterly different, yet increasingly bonded through a single, ever-evolving act of creativity. It is a film which shines a light on the artistic process itself, by turns exhilarating, exasperating and bewildering, questioning whether the gift of a great artist is a blessing or a curse. Read more
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Drama. South Korea 2016, 114 min. Directed by Ki-duk Kim. Starring: Seung-bum Ryoo, Won-geun Lee, Young-min Kim. In Korean with Russian subtitles. A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.
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Thriller/Drama. France, Belgium 2017, 110 min. Directed by François Ozon. Starring: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset. In French with Russian subtitles. Chloe, a young French woman, suffers from depression and a sharp pain in her stomach, of which no doctor has been able to ascertain the root cause. The girl begins to see an attractive psychotherapist named Paul, and soon, their meetings begin to cross the lines of ordinary psychotherapy sessions: Chloé falls in love with the doctor, and they begin to live together. Slowly, Chloé begins to suspect that her beloved is not entirely who he seems to be. Master auteur François Ozon’s provocative erotic thriller, which premiered at the most recent Cannes Film Festival. The lead role is played by Marine Vacth, who previously worked with Ozon on the Palme d'Or-nominated "Young & Beautiful / Jeune et jolie."
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23:30 | The Limehouse Golem |
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Thriller. Great Britsain 2016, 105 min. Directed by Juan Carlos Medina. Starring: Olivia Cooke, Bill Nighy, Douglas Booth. In English with Russian subtitles. A series of cruel murders shocks Victorian London, and Inspector Kildare takes on the investigation. The terrified residents suspect that the culprit is the Golem – a mythical clay creature, brought to life through magic. Kildare follows the maniac's trails, which seem to provide clear hints for the inspector, and unearths a connection between these mystical events and another case which he is working on: former music hall actress Lizzie Cree is suspected of murdering her own husband. If Kildare can't handle the London Golem, then Elizabeth will go to the gallows. A historical crime thriller by Juan Carlos Medina, with a screenplay by Jane Goldman ("X-Men, "Kingsman," "The Woman in Black"), based in turn on Peter Ackroyd's detective novel. In Ackroyd's usual manner, real historical figures (like Karl Marx and George Gissing) exist in parallel with invented characters, and literature seeps out into real life.
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