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Watch from September 21 on Moscow screens
“Twin Towers” (USA, 2006, Oliver Stone). As the film's advertising tagline states, “On this day (that is, September 11, 2001), the world saw evil. Two people saw something else." These people - John McLaughlin (Nicolas Cage - "The Wicker Man") and William Gimeno (Michael Peña - "Million Dollar Baby", "Crash") - are the last firefighters to be rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center. It is clear that a film on this topic could not possibly be provocative, controversial or even minimally challenging. But Stone, perhaps, still went too far with tact. As a result, his new film is quite difficult to watch. Also starring Maria Bella, Maggie Gyllenhaal, William Mapother, Nicholas Turturro and Jay Hernandez.“Alive” (Russia, 2006, Alexander Veledinsky). A harsh parable about a young guy who returned from Chechnya (Andrei Chadov - “Russian”), whom the so-called peaceful life met with a completely unkind reception, and he responded in kind. And for several days the ghosts of his two killed comrades became his faithful companions. Also starring Vladimir Epifantsev, Maxim Lagashkin, Alexander Robak, Victoria Smirnova, Olga Arntgolts and Alexey Chadov.
“Harbor” (USA - UK - Germany - Spain, 2004, Frank I. Flowers). A picturesque and rather confusing thriller from two years ago (and released in American distribution, like ours, only now), the action of which takes place in the Cayman Islands (the director and screenwriter Flowers are from there), which are truly a paradise in terms of natural beauty and a paradise for those who have a difficult relationship with the tax service. It is there that the destinies of a businessman escaping from Miami from the tax authorities (Bill Paxton - "Vice", "Spy Kids", "Harborers of the Storm") and his daughter (Agnes Bruckner - "Effect Iris"), who discovered a full range of not entirely legal amusements on the islands, as well as a young English handsome man (Orlando Bloom - "The Lord of the Rings", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Elizabethtown"), who inadvertently fell in love with the daughter of a local bandit. Also starring Anthony Mackie, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Dillane and Sarah Carter.
“The Pack” (USA-South Africa, 2006, Nicholas Mastandrea). Released under the title “Wes Craven Presents”, it is quite a cheerful, albeit secondary horror film about a group of young people who came to relax and have fun on a seemingly uninhabited island and discovered too late that a pack of genetically modified, very smart and equally ferocious dogs live there. who immediately begin the hunt... Starring Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Lively, Oliver Hudson, Taryl Manning, Hill Harper.
“Soap” (Denmark, 2006, Pernilla Fischer Christensen). The story of a very peculiar relationship between a middle-aged owner of a cosmetic clinic and a transsexual who still cannot completely change his gender. Stylized as a “soap opera”, touching, but able to laugh at itself very sarcastically, the picture earned quite wide festival recognition - in Berlin it received the Grand Prix of the Jury and the award for best debut, and David Dennick, who played the transsexual, was recognized as the best actor at the festival in Transylvania. Also starring Trin Dyrholm, Frank Thiel, Elisbeth Stintoft and Christian Mosbeck.