Rich, living corpses and Jane Birkin's eyes Agnes Ward

What to watch in the coming days on the big screen and on the platforms: Review of Larisa Malyukova

The rich also cry ... because they hurt each other

• On January 18, the premiere of Ilya Ermolaev according to the script of Sergei Minaev took place at the Ivi Cinema and the Ivi’s cinema and on the Ivi platform.

• The original project of the Ivi platform.

• Russian analogue of the "heirs". The richly packed criminal-family saga about the battle of the closest relatives.

In a luxurious estate on the birthday of a business shark, the owner of a large construction holding of Valia, Alexei Gradov ( Rostislav Bershauer ) gathered exclusively a family. Adult children, current wife and ex-wife. Wine - from its own winery. Plus, the nearest partner helping to extract fat orders from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology. Dear gifts. Toasts overwhelming in loving. Like a report for a glossy magazine. Not life - a picture: gigantic construction sites, undeveloped orders, property in different countries, a bed in the stadium, food in Michelen, personal astrologers. Debets argue with loans. Capitalism in Russian on a scale.

Everything ends at the time of Gradov’s sudden death. Happy and well -coordinated in general business the family is cracking at the seams and turns out to be a horned nest - they are not needed by enemies, they know better than others how to sting each other. How to develop assets. Speak with hatred long -standing grievances. Pull on the side of the road. Moreover, the large warning was formed immediately. Rejected by Alexei Gradov, the same long -term partner of Kudryavtsev ( Igor Gordin ) masterfully knows how to throw firewood into a smoldering family hearth in order to ruin him.

The battle of the thrones in the "Eclipse Corridor" of native penalties.

A tightly twisted scenario, recognizable realities: from the seizure of the house of the guilty official Sobrom to the pathos ceremonies, at which their own awards their own.

Characters are not so much cunning businessmen as riders who saddled the system who can manipulate pseudo -Personas.

Convincing acting in the characters-frauds. Igor Gordin is a cunning quiet fox, for which there are no concepts of “law”, “obligations” or “their own” - nothing personal.

Julia Snigir in the role of the chief financier, strategist of the company and ex-lover Alexei Gradova, is the sweetest pool with hell.

Pavel Popov is a charismatic, going ahead, not choosing funds in the battle for power the heir to the Grad Empire.

Alexei Guskov -in the image of the oldest, grandfather Yuri Gradov, who returned after the death of his son from a well-deserved vacation in France to the "Buried Moscow" in order to demonstrate the power of Soviet hardening in the struggle for power and money, and at the same time the advantage of the Cheburs, Michelen in Moskovskiy.

And with all its traditions and secondary, the “golden bottom” about what children with the giant empires of the fathers do. And in this is by no means an old -fashioned conflict - there is no bottom.

Talk heart to heart with a living corpse

• From January 18

• "Dance, herring!" - The tragicomedy of Alexandra Lupashko about the injury of an unwell daughter, who restores relations with his father ... True, suddenly dead.

For example, I love Sasha Bortich. It seems to me that it is extremely organic, internally mobile and the camera admires it.

Jeanne after 20 years returned to her dear city in order to say goodbye to his dad who quit his family before his death. Now she has to go through all the circles of the hell of the funeral ceremony in the village conditions-but together with the dead dad, who finally decided to talk with her daughter.

Black comedy with a “living corpse” based on the play by Tatyana Zagdai is quite a material for the cinema. True, it is difficult for a beginner director to cope with the genre, not to fall into sentimentality, farce or jokes. Therefore, it seems that the actors here are leading, not the led ones. The film is saved by the soundtrack (all these Tu-La-L-L-L-L-L-LA, “riding the star”, “EXCEED”) and especially the ending.

I can’t imagine what our cinema would do without popular hits?

Dogs and Italians are prohibited

• From January 19 to February 19 -the online festival of franco-language cinema My French Film Festival 2024

Films around the world will gain access to films of the fourteenth release of online examination.

The program involves 26 French -speaking films of all formats and genres, including 9 full -length and 9 short films of the competitive program.

Full -length films:

• "Fleet" (Stampede, France, 2022) Joel Dejarden Pack (Road-Mui);

• "Drunks " (Super Drunk, France, 2022) Bastien Miyo (comedy);

• “The Beast in the Thuast in The Jungle, France, 2022) Patrick Shia (free film adaptation of the novel Henry James);

• "Green aroma" (The Green Perfume, France, 2022) Nicolas Pariser (Spy Comedy);

• “The entrance is prohibited to dogs and Italians” (No Dogs or Italians Allowed, France, 2021) Alana Kozetto (children's animation);

• “FIIS” (Spare KEYS, France, 2022) Zhanna Aslan and the fields of the dull (comedic drama);

• "Chain dog" (Junkyard Dog, France, 2022) Jean-Baptist Duran (drama).

All films can be watched for free on the festival website (as well as on several streaming platforms). You just need to register.

Films are shown in the original with Russian subtitles.

On the festival’s website, viewers can evaluate films and award their stars with the work that they liked the most. As a result, a prize of audience sympathies will be awarded.

This year, the My French Film Festival festival pays for respect for the British-French actress and singer Jane Birkin, who died in July 2023.

Therefore, the out -of -competition program is opened by the painting "Jane B. with the eyes of Anyes V.". The carnival portrait of the singer, actresses and style icons through the eyes of the “Grandmother of the New Wave” - Ansi Varda in all variety.

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