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| One Nation, One King (Un People et Son Roi) |
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11:40, 19:20. Drama. France 2018, 121 min. Directed by Pierre Schoeller. Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Adele Haenel, Louis Garrel, Laurent Lafitte, Denis Lavant, Vincent Deniard, Olivier Gourmet, Celine Sallette, Johan Libereau. In French with Russian subtitles. A massive historical fresco about the French Revolution. In the center of the action are two young lovers, Basile (Gaspard Ulliel) and Francoise (Adele Haenel), whose fate is literally wrapped up in the wheels of history. The film features the brightest stars in contemporary French film: Louis Garrel (Robespierre), Laurent Lafitte (Louis XVI), Denis Lavant (Marat), and others.
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Action, adventure. USA 2018, 116 min. Directed by Otto Bathurst. Starring: Aaron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Jamie Dornan, F. Murray Abraham. In English with Russian subtitles. Nobleman Robin of Loxley returns from the Crusades together with his Moorish commander and discovers that in his native England, corruption reigns. Honest men can’t make a living, so Robin goes through training and becomes the best thief in the realm. The merciless Sheriff of Nottingham puts a price on his head, but a series of bold thefts lead to a real revolt, and the name of the people’s hero is passed by word of mouth – Robin Hood! A new take on an old legend.
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16:20, 21:40. Horror, thriller, detective. Italy, USA 2018, 152 min. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Doris Hick, Chloe Grace Moretz, Magorzata Bela. In English with Russian subtitles. A young American girl, Susie, comes to Berlin and gets into a prestigious dance school, run by a brilliant and charismatic headmistress, Madam Blanc. But the academy’s walls are hiding an ancient evil. Some of the students get sucked into the nightmarish cycle and become its servants, while others are cruelly killed. Susie understands that if she can’t solve the mystery in time, she might become the next victim. A remake of the cult classic horror movie from one of Europe’s most interesting directors. Part of the main concourse at the 2018 Venice Film Festival.
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| The House That Jack Built |
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14:00, 19:00, 21:50. Thriller, drama. Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden 2018, 155 min. Directed by Lars von Trier. Starring: Matt Dillon, Riley Keough, Uma Thurman, Bruno Ganz, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofia Grabol, David Bailie, Ji-tae Yu, Osy Ikhile, Jeremy Davies, Ed Speleers. In English with Russian subtitles. A story of an incredibly smart serial killer named Jack (Matt Dillon), in 1970s America. The plot is structured around five incidents which encompass 12 years of his life. We live the story through Jack’s eyes, for whom each murder is a painstaking work of art.
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11:30 | The Sisters Brothers |
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Adventure, comedy, crime. Spain, USA, France 2018, 121 min. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal. In English with Russian subtitles. Based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, "The Sisters Brothers" revolves around the colourfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, who's being pursued across 1,000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.
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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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