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“ Man on the Moon ” is a film that opened the Venice Film Festival. 33-year-old Damien Shazell took it off. The one that pleased the film audience and film akademikov with the Melancholic musical "La La Land". Cinema based on the book of James R. Hansen "The First Man: the Life of Neil O. Armstrong." About the world famous astronaut, pioneer of the lunar program, commander of Apollo-11.

The film is pretended by a sophisticated heroic Bayopic about the championship in space - the idea of ​​a fix of our film facilities. However, the “man on the moon” is an expressive description of the turbulence of fate, the predetermination of which can break a breakthrough through the geosphere. Breakthrough into the impossible.

In the center of history, a man who has lost a four -year -old daughter who died of cancer. Concentrating all the forces, skills at work, on inhuman effort to overcome the fatum, to make, as he said, "a little step for man and a gigantic leap for humanity." We will leave disputes about the reality of the flight to the Moon by brackets. Shazell without tearfulness and pathos took off his lyrical drama about the price of the most difficult step in life. Armstrong himself, who cannot get rid of the obsession, pays this price in full - he again and again winds the curl of his non -existent white -haired baby on his finger.

Near his wife, Jenet (Claire Foy), his face and hands are sprinkled with freckles, anxiety does not float out of attentive eyes. It is important for her to be near, she will not withstand the cosmic removal of the Nile. Perhaps for the first time in space films the role of the wife is in no way inferior to the protagonist. Claire demands that Neil talk to the children before the flight, admit that he may not return.

Shazell surprisingly conveys the fragility of human life, closed into an imperfect cosmic capsule (his comrades in the tests burn alive). The fragility of relations shaken by family tragedy. The fragility of the existence of mankind, separated by the finest layer of the atmosphere from the endless black cosmos. And this is a movie about the silence, which falls on the “ice captain” of Armstrong and the viewer. After the orchestral noise and the screech of the engines, this silence seems deafening, and it is interrupted only by the breath of a person.

The very space navigator, who took the first step and left the imprint on the moon. For a moment of the remaining one on one with space. For a moment, the director closes his face: in the golden “glass” of the helmet of the Nile Armstrong, a rocky lunar surface is reflected. A specific person turns into a representative of mankind - his metaphor. The almost perfect acting duet, in which Claire Foy, actress of unlimited possibilities, is not inferior to Ryan Gosling. His work is extremely accurate, made by its branded minimal means. In general, the Oscar electors have something to choose from.

"A man who surprised everyone"

The second directorial work of Natasha Merkulova and Alexei Chupov (their “intimate places” once had the hearts of an advanced viewer and outraged some deputies), also a participant in the official program of the Venetian festival. The main role, Natalya Kudryashova, received a prize for the best role. Although it would be fair to give a reward for a wonderful duet: Tsyganov -Kudryashov. Almost fabulous tragedy, immersed in the realities of the Russian province.

Huntsman Yegor Petrovich (Evgeny Tsyganov) - a serious, respected man in the village, enters into a fight with poachers who torn a deer, and ends up in a hospital with a knife wound. It turns out that the forester has cancer in the terminal stage. Life is two months left. He already makes a translation of small savings in the name of his wife, finds out how to draw up a guide to the loss of a breadwinner. In general, everything is simple: to remove potatoes - and in the hospice. His pregnant wife Natasha (Natalya Kudryashova) tries to save the dying man, asks the fellow villagers on the Moscow Doctor, drags her husband to a strongly drinking shaman ...

Sincere, fresh cinema is not so much about predetermination and strength to withstand it. Even if the forces in this battle are unequal. In this simple story there is magic and a strange fantasy rooted in mythology. There is an unattractiveness of society, intolerant and even cruel to all strange, unusual, to the white ravens, which must certainly be dumped in mud. And the ancient Siberian legend about the Selezny, turning around with a duck, in order to deceive death, becomes a recipe for the hero, a chance for survival.

A transgender intrigue is a spring spring, which looks especially acute and unexpected in the landscapes of the poor Russian province.

But these are all issues of the plot structure, which is based on the parable. And the genre of parables often sins with speculation, calculation. In the film Merkulova and Chupov there is live pain, pulse of emotions. There is an almost tactile feeling that a miracle and faith in it is a real love story that is the only one capable of challenging the insurmountable, forgive, survive after the final sentence, cross yourself for the sake of another, understand what cannot be understood.

"Based on real events"

The twenty -sixth film of Roman Polanski. A psychotriller about the ordeal tormented by fans, tormented by the nightmares of the famous writer Dolphin. Another master duet. Emmanuel and Eva Green are lying. The history of attraction, rivalry, love and hatred reminds of Polanskoy's other film “Ghost”. Their common topics - the torment of the life and work of the “ghosts of the pen” - is the name in the publishing world of “literary blacks”, as well as the history of the ghost of the existence of the star itself, the substitution of its real life by the composition of the biographer.

“Dolphin is at an impasse” - a novel dedicated to the mother, became a hit, but she receives anonymous letters, denouncing that she put up family secrets for public display. Thus begins her creative crisis, if not for the support of a mysterious stranger, seductive, fatal, ready to help, help ... And if necessary, replace. The viewer himself is free to decide whether the dolphin is really an unarmed victim, whether Ella really is the fatal Fam Fatal, manipulating a celebrity. And whether Ella was in reality. Or and she is the fruit of a patient of the author’s imagination, heated by the crisis. It is by no means the best film of the 83-year-old Polanski-a game with an audience, it is a pity that this game is predictable and does not shine with finds that made the director’s name famous.

Among the films recommended in October there are film production for every taste. Lovers of the spectacle is undoubtedly not of the “ ecstasy ” of Gaspar Noe. The poem of birth and death, radical phantasmagoria: the collective body catches in the air, in drugs, in the dance freedom and elusive pleasure. Euphoria gradually spreads through the body of the film, frantic energy oozes from all pores of the screen.

Finally, “ Primadonna ”, Comedy of Stephen Frirs with music by Alexander Despla, also sailed to Russia. About charming mediocrity, before which the best scenes are opened. In the role of a useless opera singer - Meril Streep, and perhaps this is her best comedic image in the cinema. The most interesting thing is that the heroine Streep Florence Foster Jenkins is a real character. Like many singers, Florence had a dream to sing in Carnegie Hall. And she got to this famous scene at the age of 76. The audience in the hall covered their mouths with scarves so that their laughter could not be heard. Jenkins twice performed the aria of the queen of the night from Mozart’s “magic flute”, godlessly false. There was no ovation. But the dream of Florence came true.

And who said that dreams should come true exclusively with talented people.