Translated material
Constellation of Death
Watch from August 2 on Moscow screens
“Zodiac” (USA, 2007, David Fincher). A film by the important director Fincher (“Seven,” “The Game,” “Fight Club”), dedicated to the history of one of the most mysterious and still unsolved crimes in American history: in the late 60s, a serial killer appeared there and became famous like the Zodiac, calmly dealing with couples secluded in cars. He continued his bloody harvest for many years, all the while keeping in touch with the police and the press with letters and puzzles that would supposedly help find him. In a long and meticulous film investigation, everything happens as it really is - and the cinematic Zodiac, like the real one (by the way, there was an opinion that this is not one person, but several), will remain uncaught. But this makes watching movies no less interesting. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Clea Duvall, Brian Cox, Chloë Sevigny and John Terry.“Werewolves” (USA, 2006, James Isaac). Horrors in the spirit of “Another World”, simply “Werewolves” and other films about confrontation with various evil spirits - about a little boy and his mother who find themselves in the center of a brutal confrontation between “skinwalkers”: half-wolves, half-humans, capable of very fast movement and overwhelmed by thirst human blood (and flesh too). Fans of the horror-action genre (and they shoot and explode here as often as they tear with teeth and drink blood) will not miss it in any case, but for the rest of us this week there are already enough romantic comedies and melodramas. Starring Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Ken Coates and David Sparrow.
“Operation Delta Farce” (USA, 2007, S.B. Harding). A discouragingly idiotic comedy about three idiot soldiers who were mistakenly sent to Mexico instead of Iraq, but they never realized it until the last moment. According to user ratings of the largest Internet film database IMDB.com, this misunderstanding immediately became one of the worst films of all time, and it failed at the American box office with a noise and roar similar to the explosion of a combat helicopter. Starring Bill Engvall, Larry Kabelshik, DJ Qualls and Danny Trejo.
“Fatal Beauty” (France, 2007, Pierre Salvadori). Irene (Audrey Tautou - "Amelie", "Dirty Pretty Things", "The Da Vinci Code"), a lover of spending time in the company of wealthy "daddies", one morning after another date on the Cote d'Azur discovers that she has made a terrible mistake: next to It is not a millionaire who wakes up with her, as she imprudently decided, but the most ordinary bartender Jacques (Gad Elmaeh - “Shushu”, “Car Keys”, “Understudy”). For Irene, at that very moment it was all over, of course, but Jacques had already fallen in love. And he is very determined. A very cute and well-crafted romantic comedy. Also starring Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobcheff and Jacques Spisser.
“Boy in a Girl” (USA, 2007, Nick Herran). The hooligan football player Woody and Nell, an exemplary Yale applicant, who have lived next door all their lives, by the will of fate, change bodies and are forced to somehow live with it. A youth comedy, for the million three thousand and eighteenth time, playing out a theme from which everything that is possible has already been squeezed out. But this time everything turned out a little more successfully than usual. Although it is high time for directors and screenwriters to be mercilessly flogged and disqualified for turning to this “brilliant idea.” Starring Semer Armstrong, Kevin Zegers, Emily Hampshire, Maureen Chaykin and Sharon Osbourne.
“Penelope” (USA, 2007, Mark Palansky). A tragicomic tale about a girl Penelope (Christina Ricci - “The Addams Family,” “Sleepy Hollow,” “Monster”), who is subject to an ancient family curse (what it is, it’s better, by God, to see with your own eyes), which can be lifted only possible if you choose the right groom. And therefore, in her parents’ mansion, an endless conveyor belt of potential suitors passes before Penelope’s eyes - but “the same as her” is still not found.
An original, inventive, touching and funny film for almost any age in the spirit of the most successful film adaptations of Roald Dahl. Also starring James McAvon, Catherine O'Hara, Nick Frost, Richard E. Grant and Reese Witherspoon.
“Full Breath” (Russia, 2007, Valery Pendrakovsky). An accomplished and wealthy woman Irina (Tatyana Lyutaeva - “Midshipmen, Forward”, “Sword Bearer”, “Heat”), together with her young lover Kostik (Dmitry Isaev), goes by car to the Crimea, to a semi-abandoned fishing village on the shore of the Kerch Strait, inhabited very different and not always ordinary inhabitants. Kostya once rested there, and now, having returned, he discovers that the girl Katya (Ekaterina Vilkova - “Vise”, “You Can’t Catch Us”), who was in love with him ten years ago, has grown into a charming girl and at the same time remembers your feeling. Also starring Igor Lifanov, Natalya Egorova and Alexander Bashirov.