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19:30 | XVIII New British Film Festival: Mad to be Normal |
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Drama/Biography. UK 2017, 107 min. Directed by Robert Mullan. Starring: Elisabeth Moss, David Tennant, Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne. During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit. Awards & Festivals: Galway Film Fleadh - Best International Film, Audience Award; Newport Beach International Film Festival - Best Actor. Read more
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Comedy. France 2017, 88 min. Directed by Sou Abadi. Starring: Félix Moati, William Lebghil, Camélia Jordana. In French with Russian subtitles. Armand and Leïla, are in love. Together they plan to go on their graduate internship to New York. But few days before their departure, Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, comes back from his long-term stay in Yemen, during which he has changed drastically. Wanting to reframe Leila's life, that he judges indecent, Mahmoud decides to confine his sister and stray her from her boyfriend. How can Armand free Leila, who refuses to call the police? For his friends, Armand has no other choice -- if he wants to sneak in Leila's apartment -- he will have to wear a chador... The next day, a new woman in chador walks through Paris... Her name is Shéhérazade...
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Detective. UK 2017, 115 min. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Starring: Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close. In English with Russian subtitles. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, private detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia, his client and former lover.
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Melodrama. Denmark 2017, 115 min. Directed by Birgitte Stærmose. Starring: Gustaf Skarsgård, Danica Curcic, Ulrich Thomsen. In Danish with Russian subtitles. Darling is a world-famous ballerina. Frans is the main man in her life, and her professional partner and mentor. Together, they plan to stage "Gisele" at the Royal Theatre, where Darling would dance the lead role. But an aggravated injury puts an end to the ballerina's career. She must submit to painful circumstances and find the strength to help her spouse – his production is at stake. However, a young ballerina – the new Gisele – begins to occupy the centre of attention for the ballet and Frans. A drama about love against the backdrop of art, and a story about an ambitious, striving woman, who loses her identity and finds herself face-to-face with an unavoidable tragedy.
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| Gauguin – Voyage de Tahiti |
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16:20, 23:30. Drama. France 2017, 102 min. Directed by Edouard Deluc. Starring: Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi. In French with Russian subtitles. Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow him to Paradise Lost, he sets out for Tahiti alone. Once there, he chooses to settle down in Mataiera, a village far away from Papeete, installing himself in a native-made hut. He soon starts working passionately, painting and carving in a style close to the primitive art specific to the island. During his two-year stay the artist will experience poverty, cardiac problems and other displeasures but also happiness in the arms of Tehura, a beautiful young native girl.
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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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Drama. Italy/France 2016, 112 min. Directed by David Grieco. Starring: Massimo Ranieri, Libero De Rienzo, Matteo Taranto. In Italian with Russian subtitles. In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.
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11:10, 14:50, 18:00, 01:30. Drama/Melodrama. Russia, USA 2017, 74 min. Directed by Alisa Khazanova. Starring: Marisa Ryan, Rob Campbell, Noah Huntley. In English with Russian subtitles. "Middleground" is famous Russian actress Alisa Khazanova's directorial debut, shot in English in New York. Ilya Stewart and Alisa Khazanova produced, and Roman Volobuyev was creative producer. This is a story about how unfaithful our memory can be, and to what degree our internal desire to live another life – no matter how wonderful this one may seem from the outside – all played out in real time. One of the sources of inspiration for the film was Alain Resnais' classic film, "Last Year at Marienbad."
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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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17:30 | XVIII New British Film Festival: England is Mine |
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Drama/Music/Biography. UK 2017, 94 min. Directed by Mark Gill. Starring: Jessica Brown Findlay, Jack Lowden, Jodie Comer. An amusing and evocative portrait of singer-songwriter Steven Patrick Morrissey, focused on his young adult years in Manchester. Set in the 1970s as his ambitions to be a musician developed, but before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths, this is Morrissey (beautifully played by rising star Jack Lowden) brimming with youthful arrogance, but searching to find his place in the musical world. A would-be writer, he sends letter after letter to the New Musical Express, but finds himself forced to take a job at the local tax office to help his family. He is constantly taking time off to spend time with London-bound local art student Linder (an entrancing Jessica Brown Findlay) or hiding on the office roof to write lyrics. Made with a wonderfully wry sense of humour, it presents a fish-out-of-water Morrissey, intent on railing on those around him, but also too shy and insecure at times to break from the mainstream. Awards & Festivals: Edinbourgh International Film Festival - participation. Read more
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15:00 | XVIII New British Film Festival: Goodbye Christopher Robin |
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Family/Biography. UK 2017, 107 min. Directed by Simon Curtis. Starring: Margot Robbie, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Macdonald. A rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children's author A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne, and his nanny Olive, Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family? Read more
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