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No good comes from an ogre
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"Shrek Forever After" (USA, 2010, Mike Mitchell) . The fourth and, according to the creators, the last series of adventures of the ogre Shrek in a magical land. He came to the end as a respectable family man, a member of the royal family and, in general, an extremely positive and sedate gentleman. Nostalgic for the old days, full of dangers and adventures, Shrek enters into an agreement with short Rumplestiltskin, as a result of which he finds himself in a parallel fairy-tale reality, where ogres retain a disgusting reputation as cannibals, Shrek’s old friends do not know, and he doesn’t even know his beloved wife Fiona. familiar. The choice of the director raises some doubts - until now, Mitchell was mainly known as the author of the world's not the best comedies "A Call Man" and "Surviving Christmas", but for the first (and therefore last) time you can see a "reversed fairy tale" in 3D format. In the original, the roles were voiced by Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas, and in our release the roles were dubbed by Alexey Kolgan, Vadim Andreev, Yuri Mazikhin, Zhanna Nikonova, Vsevolod Kuznetsov and Sergei Chonishvili.“Mother” (South Korea, 2009, Bong Joon Ho) . The latest and, without a doubt, outstanding film from one of the most important modern South Korean directors, Bon (Memories of Murder, Invasion of the Dinosaur, Tokyo!): An Old Woman (Kim Hye-Ja - Late Autumn) , “Mayonnaise”, “Palace”), who practices traditional medicine and acupuncture in her spare time (and, among other things, has the secret of a point on the body whose injections can “open the heart”), tries in very unconventional - especially for her gender and age - ways prove the innocence of his son (Won Ping - “Endless Love”, “38th Parallel”, “My Brother”), accused of murdering a schoolgirl. A bone-chilling story of loyalty, delusion and despair, at first very successfully masquerading as European neo-noir (like the late films of Claude Chabrol), but the closer to the end, the more clearly it acquires a metaphysical dimension. And most importantly, this is further proof that Korean cinema has finally moved from the category of seasonal fashion (albeit stretching for almost ten years) into the category of inescapable cultural values, an optional but pleasant evidence of which is the three main Asian film awards (film of the year, screenplay and Best Actress), as well as prizes at film festivals in Queensland, Dubai, Mar del Plata, Seoul and Tokyo. Also starring Jin Koo, Ji-Moon Yoon, Jun Mi-Sun, Lee Sak-Yoon, Song So-Byuk and Kim Byung-Soon.
“Tomorrow at dawn” (France, 2009, Denis Dercourt) . A musician going through a midlife crisis (Vincent Perez - “The Libertine”, “Fanfan-Tulip”, “The Apocalypse Code”) succumbs to the persuasion of his younger brother (Jeremie Renier - “The Child”, “Lie Down in Bruges”, “The Silence of Lorna” ") and joins a society of historical reenactors-role-players who spend their free time in nature, dressed in uniforms from Napoleonic times, and behave accordingly. Vitality and self-esteem increase before our eyes, but, as you know, if a sword hangs on a belt, then in the end it must be removed from its sheath, and there is no talk of any reconstruction... Composer Jerome Lemonnier, who has already worked with the director Dercourt, on his last film “The Page Turner,” was nominated for the International Soundtrack Award as “discovery of the year.” Also starring Françoise Lebrun, Aurélien Recon, Anne Mariven, Gérard Laroche, Gariella Wright and Adeline Zaroudiansky.
“Report from the Underworld” (Spain, 2009). Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza). A continuation of the incredibly successful “Report” from three years ago (since that time the American remake of “Quarantine” had already appeared), a pseudo-documentary horror shot allegedly with a hand-held camera about a multi-storey building, the inhabitants of which have turned into zombies thirsting for flesh and blood. This time the camera ends up first in the hands of special forces who are clearing out bad apartments, and then in a group of teenagers who have made their way through the cordon. And it records not just the outbreak of a mysterious epidemic, but no less than the beginning of the end of the world. And judging by the fact that two more sequels are in the pipeline, the apocalypse is just around the corner. Special prize of the specialized scary film festival in Sitges and as many as four Catalan Gaudi film awards. Starring Oscar Zafra, Alejandro Casaseca, Pep Molina, Andrea Ros, Julie Fabregas, Javier Botet, Letizia Dolera, Ana Isabel Velazquez and Manuela Velasco.