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20:20 | By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu) |
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Drama. France, Belgium 2018, 173 min. Directed by François Ozon. Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud. In French with Russian subtitles. Three men who were sexually abused by the same priest when they were children demand a change in the French church's refusal to acknowledge in its complicity with sexual abuse. They battle scepticism and resistance from their own family members to prevent the priest responsible for their abuse from continuing to work with children.
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Documentary. Great Britain 2012, 83 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. The film presents the celebrated National Gallery in London's exhibit of nine of the extant fifteen paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The film was built around historical background on Leonardo's life, the behind-the-scenes planning of the exhibit, and detailed analysis of the individual paintings. The film's producers invited guest commentators from a wide range of disciplines, including art history, dance, film, photography, and theater. This eclectic mix of expertise was a fitting tribute to the myriad-minded Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci, who was fascinated by every artistic and intellectual discipline of his age.
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09:30 | The Professor and the Madman |
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Biography, drama, mystery. Ireland 2019, 100 min. Directed by Farhad Safinia. Starring: Natalie Dormer, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Irvine. In English with Russian subtitles. Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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15:40 | The Sacrifice (Offret) |
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Drama. UK, France, Sweden 1968, 149 min. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall. In Swedish, French, English with Russian subtitles. Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all. "The Sacrifice" was Tarkovsky's third film as a Soviet expatriate, after "Nostalghia" and the documentary "Voyage in Time", and was also his last, as he died shortly after its completion. Like 1972's "Solaris", it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
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