9 movies "Kinotavr 2018", which is worth seeing this year
Cinema / / December 19, 2019
1. Anne's war
New tape Aleksei Fedorchenko ( "Porridge", "Angels revolution") has already received rave reviews from spectators at the European Film Festival in Rotterdam. In Sochi, the Russian premiere of the picture and our audience also did not remain indifferent.
The film is set during World War II and tells the story of the two-year survival of girls Ani in the fireplace at home after her family were shot by the Nazis.
Game eight debutants Martha Gantry at the festival called by this revelation and was awarded a special diploma of the jury "for the creation of the image of shrill war eyes of a child." And the film itself, because of its intimacy, turned out to be positive unlike traditional pathos tape on military issues.
Rent picture is still questionable.
2. The Story of a destination
The story of how Leo Tolstoy was trying to save the regimental clerk from the tyranny of the court - a fact really happened in the biography of the famous writer. However, in the hands of Avdotya Smirnova, one of the best
women directors in the film industry, this historical plot acquired much more relevance and tragic dimension: when viewed in the memory not just emerge news reports about the arrest of Oleg Sentsova and Cyril Serebrennikov.It is significant that the film did not receive financial support from the Ministry of Culture, although it claimed to be. Fortunately, the result is not affected. At the film festival film won the prize for best screenplay. She also got the title of best film, according to the audience.
At the box office since September 6.
3. world
In the story, Mira Slovak is sent from London to Luhansk People's Republic of light mission - to restore the battered Soviet war monuments. However, dear hero idea of peaceful coexistence fraternal peoples rent quickly under the onslaught of the harsh reality and riven by conflict.
Famous painting removed graduate documentary workshop Marina Razbezhkina (one of its graduates is, for example, Valeria Gai Germanica). Because the movie Denis Shabaeva, had already won at the "Kinotavr" and his debut came on the verge of real and gaming. All the actors in the film - non-professional and play themselves, in existing circumstances, the proposed director.
"Peace" is expected at the box office this year.
4. drop
The third tape Ivan I. Tverdovskogo It was maybe not as provocative as his "Zoology" (about a woman with a tail) or "correct class" (first love teens with disabilities), but is much more mature. "Tossed" talk about the relationship between mother and son of seventeen, she was once left in the Moscow orphanage, and now take back for the purpose of use in the criminal scheme. The guy grew up with too low pain threshold, and it is at hand spree mummy, affectionately known as the son of a superhero.
As noted by critics, visually picture Tverdovskogo not inferior vaunted tapes Zvyagintsev and boasts a powerful actor's transformations. As a result, the jury awarded the film for Best Cinematography and Best Actress.
Russian Distributors "planted" has not been defined.
5. world heart
In 2014, the writer Natalia Meschaninova (on its account last year's hit "Arrhythmia" and the already mentioned "War of Anna") debuted at the "Kinotavr" with rigid social dramas about timelessness Russian Polar region. Then the "Combine" Hope "," in the end is not released in rent because of the unwillingness of the authors to remove from the film obscene language. In 2018 she returned to the competition of the festival with a "heart of the world" and won three awards, including the grand prize.
This time, the director focused on the life of one of pritravochnyh stations, lost somewhere in the Russian wilderness. There, among the foxes, deer and badgers live young veterinarian Egor. Once he left the drinking mother, and now is trying to find a new family in the name of the station owner, his daughter and wounded Alabai.
At the box office since 27 September.
6. Russian demon
Which has become in a few years, an odious figure of Russian cinema Gregory of Constantinople, brought on "Kinotavr" his most daring work. As critics wrote, "Russian devil" rhymes along with Quentin Tarantino and "American Psycho", but the heart and soul inherit eternal questions of Dostoevsky.
The action takes place in modern tape Moscow. Svyatoslav (Ivan Makarevich) - a young artist. He's going to marry the daughter (Love Aksenov) the owner of a major Russian bank and to provide a future family, decides to open his own restaurant. However, on the path of Svetoslav gets a number of age-old bureaucratic obstacles.
The film won best director award. It is expected will be released this year.
7. deep river
Graduates of the workshop of Alexander Sokurov continues to conquer the Russian cinema. In 2017, in Cannes He took the prize "Tightness" Cantemir Balagova. This year, the "Kinotavr" Prize "The Best Debut" award Vladimir Bitokov.
"Deep River" tells of a family of wealthy loggers living in the suburbs, which came into irreconcilable conflict with the inhabitants of the nearby village. They write that the film turned dark, expressive - in short, a unique representative of a rare sub-genre "thriller Caucasus."
Russian Distributors tape has not been defined.
8. Acid
The second prize winner of the festival "Best Debut" was the picture of 26-year-old Alexander Gorchilina. This graduate of the School of the Moscow Art Theater you can see in the wildest images Kirill Serebrennikov ( "Apprentice", "Summer") and Valeria Gai Germanicus ( "Yes and yes"). However, his debut was completely verified manifesto of the younger generation.
A couple with a theatrical playwright Valery Pecheykin aspiring director tells the story of today's twentysomethings. The two friends, Alex and Peter, go to parties, have sex, casting the very acid. That they can not eradicate from his carefree existence, so it is acid helplessness and loneliness that with every step all the more corrodes from the inside.
At the box office since 4 October.
9. The calendar
The only member of our list, which rental, alas, does not shine. A pity, because Short Igor Poplauhina already created a sensation in Cannes this year, taking the second most important prize in the student film competition. Now a graduate of the Moscow School of New Cinema awarded in Russia: "Calendar" was the best among the participants Short Film Festival in Sochi.
The plot of his half-hour and alarm tape tells the story of a middle-aged woman, that whole movie going somewhere. It changes a ride on the bus, not telling a friend on the phone about his whereabouts. For what purpose character keeps his way, and where - the viewer finds himself.
And while you can look at a previous student work Poplauhina called "22".
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