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True about "laundry"
On August 28, the 76th Venice Film Festival opens, which more confidently marks in the place of the main show of artistic cinema in the world.
From the moment the Cannes review has quarreled with the largest Netflix online service, films such as the beautiful Black and white ribbon “Oscar” by Alfons Coaron, flow into Venice and even become triumphs of the festival marathon.
We talk about the paintings that you should look for in the repertoire of cinemas and online halls.
The political drama of the “laundry” to the owner of the Golden Palm Branch and the Oscar of the Oscar Stephen Soderberg tells about the Panama scandal. The New Gazeta took part in the study of the Panama dossier, the study of illegal cash networks of the world elite, finding there the names of our officials, deputies, and presidential friends.
The script is based on the book of the Pulitzer laureate Jake Bernstein , The Secret World . In it, the senior correspondent of the International Consortium of Journalistic Investigations (ICIJ), who helped to publish numerous documents related to offshore, tries to betray the publicity of previously not published data on financial fraud representatives of the power elite and famous persons. Bernstein received the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for a series of online reports about the dubious business practitioners of bankers with Wall Street, who made a full contribution to the economic crisis in the country.
Stephen Sodelberg's film is released under the Netflix brand. The stars of the first magnitude were shot in it: Maryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas.
The new film of the Swedish classic of Roy Andersson can be considered as a continuation of his magnificent philosophical trilogy (“Songs from the second floor”, “You, living” and “The pigeon sat on a branch, reflecting on life”) dedicated to existential issues. He was inspired by the film “About the Infinite” by the “Book of a thousand and one night”. Andersson says: “The book is devoted to the jewelry and beauty of our existence, it wakes up in us the desire to preserve this eternal treasure and convey it further in the opposite of images that capture individual moments of existence.” Scheherazada conducts a story about the fate of individuals, about different ways to overcome the "banality of everyday life."
Among the characters in the story of the endless vulnerability of human being, Adolf Hitler, Christ, director of the marketing department, lover of champagne and priest are promised.
Roman Polanski lifted his 35th full-length picture, devoting it to the famous case of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, accused at the end of the 19th century of espionage and justified after 12 years. In the film “The Drafus Case” (“I accuse”), Jean Duzharden, Louis Garrel, Emmanuel Sugnia and Mathieu Amalrik starred. This is a film adaptation of the book of British writer Robert Harris “Officer and Spy”, which talks about the world-famous process, which at the end of the 19th century blew up not only French society, but caused violent discussions in other European states, including Russia. One of the main characters of the film is Georges Picar, a former mentor of Dreyfus, and then the head of one of the departments of the intelligence department. He conducts his own investigation of a conflicting business, moreover, frankly colored in nationalist tones.
Interest in the person of Roman Polanski (“Chinese Quarter”, “Rosemary’s child”, “Pianist”) again at the peak after the release of the film Quentin Tarantino “Once in ... Hollywood”, in which the gang of Manson will attack Polansky’s house.
Olivier Assayas (“Zils Maria”, “Personal Buyer”) will be presented by the thriller “Osinnaya Network” . The name of the film was the name of the Spy Cuban Group "The Hasteine Network", which worked in the United States in the 90s. This is the story of the Cuban political prisoners who were accused of murder and espionage, put in an American prison. The film was shot in Cuba. In the lead roles of Penelope Cruz and Gael Garcia Bernal.
The fantastic tape “To the stars” by the regulatory of the Cannes and the holder of the “Silver Leo” of the Venice Film Festival James Gray (“Little Odessa”, “Yard”, “Lost City Z”), just like “Interstellar”, is a story about the astronaut. Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels around the galaxy in search of a father, which was missing 20 years ago (Tommy Lee Jones). Again, the space of the darkness of space is a way to talk about human relations in a hostile universe. The film is produced by Brad Pitt himself.
Sergei Loznitsa, based on the chronicle of funeral processions in honor of Joseph Stalin, made the film " State funeral ." He worked with personnel shot from March 5 to 8, 1953 for the film “Great Farewell”, among the directors of which were Sergey Gerasimov and Ilya Kopalin. It seems that for current Russia this is one of the most relevant paintings.
The program “Horizons” includes the Russian-Georgian film “Crime Man” by Dmitry Mamulia, exploring the experience of human self-identification in the modern world. The story of how a random witness of the crime begins to try on different masks: killers, murdered, victims and an executioner.
The head of the Venice Film Festival Alberto Barber called Dmitry Mamulia "one of the most interesting directors from the region of the post -Soviet space."
They will show in Venice “ Stasis ” - the co -product of Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and France. The tape entered the program "The Week of Critics". The full -length debut of the Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravichyus was removed in Odessa, Athens and Istanbul: the story of the adventures of four colorful characters - an employee of the Breeze Anna, the restorer of Sofia icon, the refugee from Sudan Mehdi and Gangster Garipa.
Among the “special shows”, the first series of the long -awaited continuation of the “new dad” Paolo Sorrentino are also included. This is a sequel to the young dad that has become the serial hit, which tells about the fictional charismatic dad Piece XIII, Lenny Belardo. Starring Jude Law and John Malkovich. Sharon Stone starred in the series.
The festival is opened by the new work of one of the most striking directors of the world of Hirokazu Koraad ("Golden Palm Branch" of the Cannes Film Festival for the Store thieves' tape). For the first time he shot a film outside Japan and not in Japanese. Pravda is a story about the aging French movie star that has published a book of memoirs. An adult daughter with her husband comes to her ... In the role of a movie star - Katrin Denev, daughter - Juliette Binosh. Ethan Hawk starred in the film.
In anticipation of the world premiere, the director says: “We shot a film in 10 weeks in the fall in Paris. The cast in the film is outstanding. Moreover, this is a small family story, the action of which for the most part takes place inside the same house. I wanted my characters to live in this little universe - with my lies, pride, regret, sadness, joy and reconciliation. I honestly hope you like the movie. ”
The program “Venetian classics”, including shows of the best paintings of the world, restored for show, along with the outstanding works of Fellini, Scorsese, Bertolucci, Bunuel - “Kalina Red” Vasily Shukshin.