Translated material
fell and run
Watch from August 27 on Moscow screens
“High Security Vacation” (Russia, 2009, Igor Zaitsev). A comedy about two men - Sumarokov (Sergei Bezrukov - “Brigade”, “Yesenin”, “The Master and Margarita”) and Koltsov (Dmitry Dyuzhev - “Brigada”, “Zhmurki”, “Island”), who escaped from their places conclusions and by the will of fate (and the script by Fyodor Krestovoy and the creator of “Streets of Broken Lanterns” Andrei Kivinov) end up in a children's holiday camp under the guise of counselors. The story is well-known, forming the basis of more than one film (offhand I remember “We Are No Angels” with De Niro and Penn or “Act, Sister” with Whoopi Goldberg, but the principle of such plots is darkness, and darkness, and darkness). Be that as it may, the main and most multi-screen premiere of the week is another attempt at extremely popular cinema with promoted actors and powerful advertising support. It’s a little scary to watch, but apparently you’ll still have to. Also starring Alena Babenko, Sabina Akhmedova, Vladimir Menshov, Alexey Kravchenko, Stanislav Lesnoy, Alexander Lykov, Kirill Pletnev, Roman Madyanov, Lyudmila Polyakova and Mikhail Bogdasarov.“Lake” (France, 2008, Philippe Grandrier). A metaphysical parable, the action of which takes place in a certain unnamed location (in fact, the film was shot in France and Switzerland, but with Russian actors), on the shore of a northern lake. A family lives there - two brothers (one of whom suffers from seizures and is painfully attached to his younger sister), a sister and a blind mother (there is also a father who appears infrequently). But at some point, someone else appears in the closed world of these difficult people. At last year's Venice Film Festival, the film received a special mention from the jury of the Horizons program. Starring Vitaly Kishchenko, Dmitry Kubasov, Natalie Rekhorova, Alexey Solonchev, Simone Weselman and Arthur Semaj. Only in "35 MM".
“Why men never listen and women don’t know how to park” (Germany, 2007, Leander Hausmann). An educational comedy about gender relations, based on the best-selling book by Barbara and Allan Pease, which argued that all the differences, relationship characteristics and properties included in the title are inherent in men and women for purely neurobiological reasons. This theory is examined using the example of the average Katrin (Jessica Schwartz - “Lulu”, “Perfume”, “Fashion Victims”), who hits the car of the no less average Jan (Benno Fuhrmann - “Anatomy”, “The Princess and the Warrior” in the parking lot) ", "Speed Racer"). This begins their relationship and a series of mistakes from which the audience must learn. Also starring Thomas Kretschmann, Tom Schilling, Matthias Matzschke, Annika Kuhl, Nadja Becker, Lars Rudolf, Katja Flint and Steffi Kunert.
“Kind People” (Russia, 2009, Alexey Karelin). A drama about the life of ordinary Russian people in a Ural village, first at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, and then ten years later. Based on the script by Vladimir Gurkin (“Love and Doves”, “Fatal Eggs”, “Round Dance”). Starring Tatyana Yakovenko, Alexander Chevychelov, Nadezhda Markina and Alexey Bagdasarov.
"The Human Body" (UK, 2001, Peter Georgi). A forty-minute journey through all the possible cracks of the human body on a screen the size of the notorious seven-story building (until now, this BBC film was only available on licensed discs). With extraordinary ease you find yourself either inside the “comrade of the heart” that has not stumbled halfway, then inside the lungs, then in the gastrointestinal tract. An excellent attraction that has little to do with cinema (except perhaps to popular science, a sort of TV biology lesson in high school), but it will chill you to the bone. The film received an award from American Sound Editors. Featuring Herzer Pike, Buster Pike, Zannah Lawrence, Luke Brinkers and Robert Winston. Only in Nescafe-IMAX.