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It is worth thoroughly stocking up on popcorn — during the festive months, not only horror, cartoons and Woody Allen films will appear at the box office, but also films for the rest of humanity — for those who are still waiting for surprises from cinema.
1. «Saber Dance»
Yusup Razykov, an ironist who moved from Uzbekistan to Russia, has become almost the only metaphorist in Russian cinema: he creates myths tightly attached to everyday life. His previous «Kerosene» is a frightening tale about the triumph of justice in the life of an old woman who turned out to be a fortune teller. Therefore, you will not immediately believe that Razykov shot an almost historical epic — about how, in 1942, in the frozen Molotov-Perm, Aram Khachaturian was forced to write the great Saber Dance in 8 hours by order of the party and the leadership of the evacuated Mariinsky Theater. And here’s something else surprising and fresh: the role of Khachaturian is the first big role in the cinema of Ambartsum Kabanyan, the star of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater and, due to his unique external data, advertising.
Genre: drama.
Director: Yusup Razykov.
Cast: Ambartsum Kabanyan, Alexander Kuznetsov.
In theaters from December 12
2. «Slave»
Director Klim Shipenko grew up in Germany, studied in Los Angeles, so it’s not at all surprising that the 36-year-old Shipenko is drawn to Russia, even partly serf. In any case, in his film, an oligarch dad from Moscow in the 1860st century sent his son Grigory, a major, who had recently been crisscrossing Moscow in a red cabriolet, to XNUMX. Dad, together with a psychologist friend, is conducting an experiment: on the basis of an abandoned village, a Russian village has been recreated, where, after a pseudo-accident, Grigory will please — but already as a serf Grishka for reforging. Here the viewer will remember at the same time both «A ticket to life» and «The Truman Show» …
Genre: comedy.
Director: Klim Shipenko.
Cast: Milos Bikovich, Alexandra Bortich, Maria Mironova.
In theaters from December 26
3. «Great poetry»
Alexander Lungin, the son of director and screenwriter Pavel Lungin, inherited from his father a sense of the mission of cinema: it was created to talk about important, essential things. For example, as «Great Poetry» — about male friendship and devotion, about a person’s awareness of his place and task, his unique role. Two guys who returned to Russia from the war in the Donbass and became guards under the command of a former company commander (and where else would they?), feel like poets — one only feels, and the second is really a poet. But reality is stronger than art, and a film about recent soldiers in a life that seems peaceful becomes a kind of reportage about competition, a game without rules and mercy.
Genre: drama.
Director: Alexander Lungin.
Cast: Alexander Kuznetsov, Alexei Filimonov, Fedor Lavrov, Evgeny Syty, Elena Makhova.
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4. Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton was the heir to a billionaire clan, a Yale graduate, a Japanist, a businessman in Japan, and finally a Hollywood star. He played four dozen roles in films, a dozen in the theater, voiced The Simpsons and Isle of Dogs, and now decided to develop a directing career: he made his debut as a director 20 years ago with the comedy Keeping the Faith. Now he has chosen an even more difficult path — the classic American noir detective with his hats and ambiguous characters. Oh yes, Norton also plays the main role here — a man with Tourette’s syndrome (with all his tics and voice modulations), who gave his word to find the killer of his mentor detective.
Genre: drama.
Directed by Edward Norton.
Cast: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Alec Baldwin.
In theaters from December 5
5. «Officer and Spy»
Roman Polanski made a reconstruction film not only about the trials of the French army officer Dreyfus, accused of spying for Germany, and exposing false accusations. He made a film about honor and truth that needs to be protected. Sometimes all my life. Sometimes at the cost of fate. That is, Polanski made a film in something about himself, about the consequences of his own affair with a 13-year-old model, for which he has been persecuted for 42 years. And he appeared in a second episode — about the pressure of social hysteria on a person. This film is about a world where the court defends the army and categorically refuses to admit its mistake. About an officer who rebelled against the system.
Genre: thriller.
Director: Roman Polanski.
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner.
In theaters from December 19
6. Pisîk
The first trailer for the film adaptation of the famous musical, released six months ago, caused a flurry of ridicule. It seemed to be more of a horror about werewolves, only with cats instead of the usual wolf-like ones. It also seemed that the filmmakers had never seen the legendary Webber musical and the cats themselves. But nothing: it was endured, and now it will surely fall in love. Still, people who look so much like cats, as in the Cats frame, are flattering to us, people. And the music is still there, and the verses from Eliot’s collection of popular cat science written by Old Possum, which inspired Webber. But they also added refined British stars and the staged scope of Tom Hooper, who made The King’s Speech!, The Danish Girl and the musical Les Misérables.
Genre: musical.
Director: Tom Hooper.
Cast: Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen.
In theaters from January 2