Such beauty: Kidman in "Bad Girl" and the return of Miyazaki.
The new rental week brought the erotic thriller "Bad Girl", thanks to which Nicole Kidman won the prize for Best Actress at last year's Venice Film Festival, and a rather cliched action movie about special agents-lovers in trouble "Alarum". Among the Russian novelties - the first ethno-horror "Shaman" and teen drama about tender feelings "Four Quarters" based on the novel by Alexander Yuk. In addition, in the re-run released already become a classic of animation "The wind is getting stronger" Hayao Miyazaki. "Izvestia" - about what to watch in the movies in the coming weekend.
"Bad Girl" 18+
Directed by: Halina Raine
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas
Nicole Kidman can be confidently called an actress who is not afraid to take risks. And she for him, as well as for uncompromising in acting, is rewarded. The role of a businesswoman, experiencing a personal crisis and spun a dangerous affair with a self-assured young intern, brought the artist prize at the Venice Film Festival. And it is possible that ahead - a nomination for "Oscar".
"Bad Girl" is directed by Halina Rein, director of the slasher "Bodies, Bodies, Bodies." About bodies and her new movie, only in a different context. "Bad Girl" studio A24 serves as an erotic thriller (explicit scenes are quite provocative). Critics are leaning toward it being more of a comedy, mirroring Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" and also starring Kidman. For patience and seriousness in "Bad Girl" is responsible Antonio Banderas, who played the husband of the main character, as if the most ideal man in the world. Nicole herself called "Bad Girl" an emotional and sexual odyssey - more about it in an exclusive interview with "Izvestia".
"Four Quarters" 16+
Directed by: Evgenia Tirdatova
Starring: Anastasia Ermoshina, Peter Bezmenov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Andrei Ilyin, Irina Pegova, Lyubov Tolkalina.
Screen adaptation of the sentimental novel by Alexander Yuk "Four Quarters. Adult chronicle of school love", following in the footsteps of teen melodramas "Country Sasha" and "Asphalt Sun" and claims to be a worthy successor to the movie "You never dreamed" (last year's "Vera", alas, a lot for this was not enough).
At the beginning of the two-thousandth. Masha moves with her parents from St. Petersburg to Moscow, where she thinks she will quietly and with honors graduate from the graduating class of the physics school. Plans are disturbed by her classmate Zhenya, talented and poetic, in whom the girl falls in love. Love is mutual, but while the couple is trying to rather from the transition age to enter adulthood, everyone who can: friends, parents, teachers get into their relationship.
"Shaman" 18+
Directed by: Mikhail Merzlikin
Starring: Yuri Maiganashev, Lyana Ondur, Marina Fedunkiv, Oleg Vasilkov.
The tape, which premiered in competition at the festival of author's cinema "Winter" last December, has already been dubbed the first Russian folk-horror. An old shaman lives on the outskirts of a Khakass village in a snow-covered ramshackle hut. All he does is help people who call on spirits. Sometimes his "clients" are greedy, sometimes just plain stupid. Among them are a blogger asking for likes and subscribers, a woman unhappy because of a birthmark on her face, and a local alcoholic. To each of them the shaman gives an individual crazy task. One is offered to rob a bank, the second - to walk through the village naked, the third - to kill a man. All at the will of the spirits, of course. Surprisingly, but all the heroes cope with the "tests", even get what they want, but do not notice how, along with this, their lives begin to crumble.
"Shaman" is the directorial debut of Mikhail Merzlikin, formerly a historian. For five years he traveled to the sacred and mystical places of Khakassia, where he communicated with real shamans. The idea for the movie came to him along with the increased popularity for the services of online psychics, neo-shamans and wish marathons, which are aimed primarily at making money. In his movie Merzlikin tries to answer the question of what a person is willing to do to fulfill his dreams.
"Alarum" 18+
Directed by Michael Polish
Starring: Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald, Sylvester Stallone.
During the New Year's holidays, movie theaters turned their attention to the lack of content for adult audiences - endless sessions of fairy tales delighted young viewers. Therefore, as soon as the "New Year's battle" thundered down, action movies and thrillers appeared in the schedules. Following the already conquered the American box office sequel "Thief Hunt" with Gerard Butler in Russia came "Alarum" - a spy thriller with a classic cinematic move about former special agents who fall in love with each other. The only thing that saves the picture is that for an hour and a half of timing the audience watches Hollywood actors Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald and Sylvester Stallone.
Joe and Lara are on a winter vacation away from the U.S. disguised as ordinary people, where they compose for everyone the details of their acquaintance. Quiet everyday life of former CIA agents is interrupted by an airplane crash, in the wreckage of which they find a flash drive with classified information. And instantly attract the attention of their former colleagues. "Alarum" could well have been a prequel to Robert Rodriguez's "Spy Kids" if it had comedic potential. This is the story that Carla Guccino's character could tell her children at bedtime at the beginning of the first installment.
"The Wind Rises" 12+
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "The wind is getting stronger" is being re-released, with which the original classic of Japanese and world animation planned to put an end to his career. In it there are no amazing characters, which makes it seem that this is the least popular work of the master. Familiar magical worlds gave way to a terrible reality. The action unfolds during the Second World War. Aircraft designer Jiro Horikoshi dreamed of flying in his dreams and in reality, but his talent came in handy for building fighter planes for the Japanese army. Despite the magical realism, which, of course, has not gone anywhere, the tape is very tied to reality. Here even smoke as you will not see in any other cartoon. And you won't see it in this one either. This time the tape was let in the rental with small bills - blurred all the cigarettes, wooden smoking pipes and bulls.
"The Wind Rises" - the most adult and one of the best films Miyazaki. It's also one of the most personal. The director, known for his anti-war stance, was born into the family of a factory manager who made parts for Japanese fighter planes that were in use during World War II.
