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Anton Dolin. Ten films of the week: May 21-27
(premiere). Awesome cinema, although not for everyone. Not because the intellectual (on the contrary, in some places there is nowhere easier), but because a very strange movie. The director, Swede Roy Anderson, first became famous for a debut twenty -five years ago, and then decided to rebel against the dictate of the producers and stopped shooting a feature movie. He founded his own company, won victories at all advertising festivals with his own manufacturing videos. I earned a bunch of money and finally shot the film all my life, as I wanted. All actors of "songs from the second floor" are non -professional: drivers, managers, unemployed. Music was written by Benny Anderson from Abbe. The film consists of fifty static episodes, each of which refers the viewer to one side or another side of modern European life, visually quoting the Bosch , Bruegel and Magritt and exaggerating in different ways - the end of the world, which is dedicated to the "song ..." the magician cuts the random customer with the saw, the owner of the furniture store burns it, the poet enters the psychiatric The hospital, ghosts roam the streets. Native Sweden, which Anderson literally trampled in his main film, announced "Songs ..." The best picture of the year. Before that there was a jury prize in Cannes.
The mummy returns (premiere) . The new film from the rising star of commercial American cinema Steven Somers. His “Raise from the depths” was still a quite ordinary film “B” about the evil octopus, but the romey of the ancient “mummy” (with Boris Carloffhy), turned by the efforts of Somers into an incredible whirlpool of inventive and witty adventures, literally shocked the audience, immediately turning the actor of the Brandan Frezer in the incredible actor of the branding in Highly paid star. In the new film, the adventures continues with the same, even overshadowing the Indiana Jones, brilliantly: Scarabs run in all directions, computer zombies from time immemorial marching along the sand, and in the camp of positive heroes there is another fighter: the son of two main characters of the previous series. Spectacle in the highest category.
The person who cried (premiere) . The new work of the British director Sally Potter, better known to us in Orlando, is deprived of that ghostly sophistication. Slightly stylized by retro, everyday history between the eras of the two world wars. The Jewish family is separated at the beginning of the century in Russia - the father (it is played by Oleg Yankovsky, unexpected in the foreign -language film, apparently taken only for the texture, and even that is erroneous - it is not like a Jew), and then the girl who remembered only one song in her native language, wandering around Europe. Foster parents in England, dancing in a cabaret in Paris, then love, war ... Trivial saga, adhering, however, several outstanding actors: in addition to Yankovsky, this is a major role Kristina Ricci, gypsies Johnny Depp, elderly and tired Harry Din Stanton, nervous blonde Kate Blanchens and a cult actor of the Coen -John - John - John - John - John - John - John - John - John Tourroro. The film is so -so, but the actors are painfully cool!
Autumn in New York (premiere) . The second directorial work of the former star "Twin Picks", Asian beauty Joan Chen. An old-fashioned, beautiful and lingering melodrama, in which they are able to not annoy actually, who had long been dusking Vainon Ryder and Richard Gir. He is a successful bachelor, a womanizer and the container of the most fashionable restaurant in New York. She is a young designer, dying of cancer (he does not suspect this for the time being). Through this sudden love, he will have to understand all the futility of his existence until then ... And yet the melancholy of the secondary "love stories" is a hundred times better than the Komsomol enthusiasm of Hollywood lyric comedies!
Taurus (premiere) . This is the only Russian film presented in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival -2001: the situation of two years ago is repeated, only instead of “Moloch”, a film about one weekend from the life of Hitler, Sokurov is taking the penetrating narrative about days from the life of Lenin - a patient, an old retired leader of the revolution - in the hits. The rest of the components are approximately the same: screenwriter Yuri Arabov (by the way he was given a Cannes prize for the script in the 99th), Hameleon artist Leonid Mozgova ... The operator is only new, named Alexander Sokurov. The director himself took up the camera, and it turned out unexpectedly well; The rest of the "Taurus" is closer to the traditional Sokurov than "Moloch" - slow, leisurely, meditative, thoughtful and undoubtedly beautiful. ( Detailed review. )
House of Night Ghosts. For the first time in some time (Hannibal really does not count) - an American horror film. A natural scarecrow, which has nothing to do with the post -human "house of ghosts on the hill." The tie, as always in horror, is trivial and meaningless: the one who holds out in an enchanted house will receive a million. Then the cascade of low -residential, but forcing them to startle, horror begins; Fun and endless quotes from the classics of the genre, up to the "kingdom" von Trier. For a normal sense of humor - entertainment what is needed.
13 days (premiere) . In America, such films are very fond of, with us, where history has always turned on a movie screen into a myth, they are hardly possible in principle, the more interesting the reaction of the Russian public. This is almost a documentary story - the participants in the events saw and approved (sic!) - about the thirteen days of the Caribbean crisis, seen by the eyes of Kevin Costner, the trustee and assistant President Kennedy. Costner is serious and completely unbridle, the characters surrounding his characters are believable - such a scrupulous reconstruction of events, in theory, should be accompanied by the equally thorough reconstruction of the emotions of people who are ready for the quite real Apocalypse of NOW, but the film is too cold. And therefore it is quite mound. Although those who survived this themselves learned to hide in a bomb shelter and put on a gas mask, perhaps “13 days” will cause some living feelings. ( Detailed review. )
Hannibal (premiere) . One of the main events in the world pop-kino. Ridley Scott, who, thanks to the “gladiator”, the main character of Oscar-2001 (although the director’s reward, thank God, did not receive), and once made very good films-from the basics of the Sins-Fixes “Running Blade” and “Alien” to the feminist “Telma and Louise”, put the sequel of the “Lumber”, one of the Few thrillers perceived by critics seriously. Dr. Hannibal Lecter continues to eat people, and Clarissa Stanling's agent enters into a fight (still hopeless) with evil. Julianna Moore and Anthony Hopkins are at least promising, although many moviegoers believe that after Hopkins, Hopkins did not have a single worthy acting work. Including the "silence of the lamb." ( Detailed review. )
In August of the 44th. For the first time in a long, long time on our wide screens and, apparently, for the first time in Dolbi-cinema-a Belarusian film (well, not quite Belarusian, co-products with the Russian Federation). Finally, our directors, in this case, Mikhail Ptashuk, did not take up the imitation of Hollywood genres, but for the original, Soviet, solid genre of military drama. “In August of the 44th,” was given based on the most famous novel by Vladimir Bogomolov, a writer, most famous - at least in the world of cinema - the story “Ivan”, according to which Tarkovsky put his first film. However, Ptashuk did not like the Bogomolov film. But he will like it to many radio -cinema radio, since the genre is observed exactly, there are few ideology, and the actors, whatever you say, are good: Petrenko, Mironov, Baluev ...
Requiem for a dream (premiere) . The decision to release such a film in a wide rental is a brave solution. The second picture of the talented director from the latest generation of American independent (the directorial prize for Pi in Sandens) Darren Aronofsky does not apply to art house only because her pathos, ultimately, is quite journalistic and does not contradict the official state pathos. Simply put, "no drugs." Otherwise, this is a virtuoso sample of claustrophobic depressive cinema, built on transparent and to tears of beautiful symbols, erecting the idea of the drug to the highest principle of life of the layman. Installation and especially the music (the performance of Kronos-Quartet) is above all praise, the acting work Ellen Berstin ("Exit to the Devil", "Alice does not live here") is not truely good. As a result, we have a figurative parable - for a wide viewer - or an ideal anti -drug roller - for potential consumers. Choose which category you are. ( Detailed review , and not one ! )