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Venice of Creations
On September 1, the film "Parallel Mothers" Pedro Almodovara will open the Venetian Film Festival, where three Russian paintings will be shown: Guide
This year is perhaps the most productive for festival Russian cinema in its entire post -Soviet history. Our films are in the programs of all the main filmings.
Russia in Venice is presented in several programs.
In the main competition - thriller Natasha Merkulova and Alexei Chupov “Captain Volkonovov fled” with Yura Borisov in the title role.
What is the film about
"Captain Volkonogov fled"
Encavedeshnik Fedor Volkonov, announced by the criminal, manages to escape before the arrest. It was then that the messenger is from the other world, warning the hero that he will go to hell, if he does not repent. Now he needs to do a good deed of blood from his nose, to receive forgiveness of at least one living soul from those whom he spread rot.
The program “Extra Horizons” is the film of Vladimir Bitokov “Mom, I am at Home” , a student of Alexander Sokurov.
What is the film about
"Mom, I'm at home"
The driver of the bus Tonya is waiting for the return of his son, who had served from his native Nalchik to fight in Syria under a contract. When Tone is reported that her son is killed, she refuses to believe it and alone begins a grueling struggle, demanding that she return her son.
Here is also in one of the main roles of Yura Borisov, and with him
Ksenia Rappoport and Alexander Gorchilin. Producers Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov.
The program “The Week of Critics” of the World Premiere of Meditative Drama of Ekaterina Selengina “Wage paths” of Russian-Niderland production.
What is the film about
"Wage paths"
The story of the dragdler Denis, living on the outskirts of Moscow. Children rush along the roofs of garages, immigrant workers play volleyball, the activist froze for a while in a single picket, and the layman Denis packs the cache. “Following the nationwide, the film explores the poetics and policy of urban spaces, as well as the connection between violence and various forms of resistance,” the filmmakers say. Their method is the reconstruction of real facts and events.
Unprofessional actors are engaged in the film, many of whom were found at the street casting. This is a co -product with the Dutch studio Dutch Mountain Film.
The competition is strong, preserving respect for traditional cinematographic values, to keep up with new trends and time trends, and at the same time support national cinematography-five Italian paintings in the main competition (from the aesthetic Il Buco, telling about the group of speleologists, who opened the second in the depths of the cave in the world, before Fantasy Freaks Out, the stories of four circus men trying to survive in Rome during the Second World War).
Social cinema is increasingly called by the artist for art forum. In addition to the Ukrainian “reflection” about the war in the Donbass, here the Polish social drada “not to leave traces” by Jan P. Matushinsky about the violence of the Soviet system, based on the real history of the young man who witnessed the deadly beating of a friend in Warsaw of the 1980s. Audrey’s “Event” is about the stormy life of the French student of the 1960s.
The jury of the main competition will be headed by Pon Jun-Ho, who received Oscar in 2020 for Parasites.
The most interesting competition films
"The hand of God"
Paolo Sorrentino (“Great Beauty”, “The consequences of love”) made his film for Netflix. But this does not interfere with participation in the festival on the island of Lido.
About what: the main character is a teenager Fabitto Skiz. Life rises up to my head when the legendary football player Diego Maradona comes to the city.
The film takes place in Naples of the 1980s, the hometown of Sorrentino. According to the author, this is a very personal story, in it in equal shares sadness and joy. In one of the main roles, the alter of the ego directed Tony Servilo is traditionally.
"Dog Power"
The craftswoman of psychological cinema Jane Campion (“Piano”, “Angel at my table”) film a famous and sung by criticism by Tom Savija Roman.
About what: a story tangled into a ball of love, jealousy, the struggle of the two brothers living in the Ranch in Montan. The conflict flares up when George (Jesse Streons) secretly marries the local widow of Rose (Kirsten Dunst). And his native blood boils with hatred: his brother Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) begins a serious war.
This is the second original Netflix project in the competition.
"Spencer"
The film Pablo Larraina is a Bayopic about Princess Diana (Larrain shot a film several years ago about Jacqueline Kennedy). The picture takes place over three Christmas days in the early 1990s, in the Royal Sandringem estate in Norfolka.
About what: the very turning point when Diana decides to divorce Prince Charles. In the role of Lady Dee - Kristen Stuart.
In Russia, the film will be released on November 5th.
"Sunset"
-The next premiere of the Cannes, the Mexican author of Michel Franco (“Daughters of Abriel”, “After Lucia”, “Chronicle”, and most recently we saw his actual thriller-antiopia “New Order”, awarded the Silver Leo Venice).
About what: a wealthy man is trying to quit his wife during a vacation in Acapulco. Tim mouth and Charlotte Hensbur were shot.
"Cold calculation"
-Thriller of the 75-year-old master Paul Shreder, director, scriptwriter “Yakuza”, “Taxi driver” and “Frantic bull”, thoughtful cinema theorist.
About what: the player and ex-servant William Tele (Oscar Isaac) agrees to help a friend Sirku (Tai Sheridan), obsessed with revenge. Here the past stands across the road to the present. And the poker table is turning a ring of fighting for survival. Nevertheless, this special fight: the main thing in poker is to maintain composure, calculating the opponent’s moves.
"Official competition"
The Spanish comedy drama with Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz.
About what: two famous actors with different playing of the game. On the site, they do not understand each other. The businessman, a billiardor financing the project, has to hire a famous director. After all, he wants to make not just a blockbuster, but a film that will leave a mark in the world history of cinema.
The directors are Gaston Dupra and Mariano con. This is their sixth joint work.
"Lost Illusions."
Director Xavier Dzhanololi waved to the holy - the film adaptation of Masterpiece, the longest in the “human comedy” of Honore de Balzac Roman “Lost Illusions”. His risky enterprise can support a powerful casting: Cecil de France, Gerard Depardieu and Xavier Dolan. In the title role, Benjamen Voise.
"Glue."
Valentin Vasyanovich is the first Ukrainian director in the last 30 years to present a film in the main competition. Last year, his drama Atlantis was awarded to the Horizon section. Vasyanovich studied at the school of Andrzej Vaida, was the operator of Miroslav Sloshpitsky, he is a supporter of the visionary author’s cinema, charged with current time.
About what: the events of the new film are taking place in the Donbass. Ukrainian surgeon Sergey is captured by the Russian military. In captivity, he faces a hellish, terrible and indifferent world. After liberation, he returns home, tries to restore normal life with his daughter and ex -wife. But hell is already inside ...
In Ukraine, the premiere is scheduled for 2022. “We had consultants,” says the director, “we checked every position, and this greatly influenced the plot itself. For example, our consultant on the topic of “isolation” (prisons in Donetsk) was Stanislav Aseev, who served there for two years. ”
"Lost daughter."
This is the director's debut of the beautiful actress Maggie Jillenhale (“Mona Lisa”, “Character”) - an adaptation of the novel by Helena Ferranta.
About what: the heroine's beach vacation promises to be cloudless ... Until secrets from the past pop up.
Filmed: Olivia Kolman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgard and Paul Mal.
"Mona Lisa and Bloody Moon"
-Fantasy-triller Ana Lily Amirpur (her anti-utopia “Bad Party” about the love of cannibal was awarded the jury in 2016).
About what: a girl with unusual and unsafe features runs out of the psychiatric hospital in New Orleans. But the cinema Amirpur is not about a crazy man, but about a crazy world, perverted reality. In her films, the largest antagonist is the state system - how it imposes a certain behavior to us and ultimately affects how we see each other and where we are.
"Parallel to mothers"
The picture of Pedro Almodovar, who opens the festival, claims to be the Golden Leo.
About what: Almodovar returns to the beloved topic of motherhood. The fate of the two women intersect in the maternity ward. Jenis (Penelope Cruz) - a masterful photographer, ANA (Milena Smith) - a confused teenager. Both are alone, did not plan children ... give birth to one day. A random meeting will turn into a strange strong connection that changes the vector of life.
“In Madres Paralelas,” says the director, “I return to the Women's Universe, turn to family themes and talk about the importance of ancestors and descendants. There are many maternal images in my filmography, but those that I show in this story are very different. ” The theme of motherhood in his cinema changes noticeably. And today, according to his admission, he is inspired by “imperfect mothers”, the benefit of reality gives rich material for reflection on this problem.
This is the seventh joint work of the classic with Penelope Cruz. Their inspired union was baptized in the “living flesh” of 1997. Then there were “all about my mother” (1999), “Return” (2006), “Obstacked Hugs” (2009), “I am very excited” (2013), “Pain and Glory” (2019).
"Rhinoceros"
In the “Horizons” section, the crime drama “Rogorog” Oleg Sentsov, conceived by him even before the imprisonment.
About what: Wild nineties. A bandit nicknamed the rhino falls into the grip of the criminal world. The prototype of the hero of the film was one of the director's friends. It was played by a public activist, a former member of the National Corps, now the founder of the youth movement "Honor" Sergey Filimonov.
"Last duel"
Among the loud Venetian prime ministers is the medieval epic of Ridley Scott (“Alien”, “Running the Blade”, “Gladiator”) “The Last Duel”. The script is based on the book by Eric Jager “The Last Duel: a true story of a battle of battle in medieval France”.
About what: Jager, a professor of medieval literature, describes the affairs of the long -past days as an eyewitness. The era of a centenary war. The best friends Jean de Carruju (Matt Damon) and Jacques Le Gar (Adam Driver) The court orders to fight to death after Carruge accuses Le Gang's rape ...
"Dune"
It is in Venice that the long-awaited world premiere of the fantastic film “Dun” Denis Villeneva, postponed due to pandemia, will take place.
About what: this is the first part of the film adaptation of the novel by Frank Herbert, one of the most popular fantastic works of the twentieth century. In reports from filming, journalists described stunning scenery, exciting battles between thinking cars and people.
In Russia, to the joy of fans, the film is released immediately after the world premiere - September 16.