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09:40 | 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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14:40 | Piranhas (La Paranza dei Bambini) |
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Drama, crime. Italy 2019, 115 min. Directed by Claudio Giovannesi. Starring: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo, Ciro Vecchione, Ciro Pellechia. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Claudio Giovannesi and Roberto Saviano are the authors behind the TV show Gomorrha (Gomorra), about the everyday lives of the Naples Mafia, and they return once again to the streets of Italy’s criminal capital. But this time, they focus on very young boys, obsessed with the deceptive appeal of life on the other side of the law. They are only 15, and they want money, luxury brands, and new scooters. They play with guns like children, and aren’t afraid of either death or jail. They’re ready to take risks to take power in the criminal district of Sanita. With all the carelessness of youth, they get mixed up in a war that will soon take everything from them, from friendship and love ultimately to life itself. The film won the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.
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Drama. Germany, Israel, France 2019, 123 min. Directed by Nadav Lapid. Starring: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte. In French, Hebrew with Russian subtitles. A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
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12:15 | 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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