Monsters and people: what movie premieres await us in April
The main film event in April will undoubtedly be the first real domestic monster horror "Kraken" about the battle of a Russian submarine with a monster of the depths. The film turned out to be beautiful, intense and exciting.: it's worth going, even with children, if, of course, they have already reached the age when the sight of a giant octopus will provide nightmares for a long time. For younger mischievous people, "Deniskin's Stories" is suitable, and older mischievous people should like the crime comedy "Where's Our Money?", clearly inspired by Guy Ritchie's early films. Izvestia reports on the most interesting film premieres in April.
"Everything that concerns you"
April 10th
Masha, 16, has lived without a father all her life and has dreamed of meeting him for as long as she can remember. However, my mother holds on tenaciously: all Masha has managed to find out about her father over the years is the extremely rare name Pavel Sokolov in our area and the fact that her parents met at a concert of the Zveri group. The Internet helps — Masha finds an online account of a person of the right gender and age, discovers a message there that the owner of the page plans to go to the anniversary concert of "The Beasts", and runs from home to Moscow, hoping to find a man in a room of thousands whom she saw only in an old small photo. And he will get there, and find, and resolve the terrible misunderstanding that happened 16 years ago, and he will also meet his first true love on the way: in the finale, everyone, without exception, will have a happy ending.
After watching the recent film "Hands up!", released with the support of Sergei Zhukov, Roma the Beast seemed to see that it was good and decided to repeat the success. Smart producers made work on the mistakes: the band's story was not included in the plot, replacing it with the love story of two generations of its fans. But the songs have become not just a soundtrack, but a tuning fork of the mood and history of the era, all 16 years in which events unfold. It turned out well: the film is light, and the familiar songs evoke memories of a dashing, stupid and romantic youth. Marking "12+" allows a family film tour.
"Under fire"
April 10th
The film takes place in Iraq in 2006. A group of Marines finds themselves trapped in the home of an Iraqi family. They are the elite of the special forces, they have thousands of hours of training behind them, but the situation they are in is an emergency: the quarter is surrounded and full of enemies, the soldiers have wounded in their hands, and in order to break out of the siege, they need to wait for reinforcements, waiting for which they will have to hold out for an endless 90 minutes.
The director of the film Alex Garland ("Out of the Car", "Annihilation", "Judge Dredd") is a great hardcore expert: a sea of blood, mountains of bodies and the emphasized physiology of what is happening on the screen, which threatens the viewer with prematurely parting with popcorn at every plot twist, is his signature style. One can argue whether detailed techniques are good for the adventure philosophical "Beach", which was the director's debut film, but in a military historical drama they turn out to be very useful: the tension does not let go of the audience for a minute. Considering that Ray Mendoza, who came straight from the Navy Seals and actually fought in Iraq, worked on the film with Garland, we have a chance to get a tough war drama no worse than Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk" and Sam Mendes' "Marines." Genre lovers get ready.
"Mickey the Monster"
April 10th
Following the killer Winnie the Pooh and Piglet with bloody fangs, Mickey the Monster appears on the screens — creepy Mickey Mouse, dressed, according to shocked witnesses, in shorts and a hat. The latter, presumably, is designed to cover the delicate ears of the mouse monster from the blood that splashes in all directions almost from the first frames. For carefree vacationers, a riverboat ride along the Hudson River turns into a bloody nightmare performed by the beloved hero of all American children, who decided that the world around him was not worthy of being amused, but was quite ripe for death.
The disaster, as it often happens, broke out because of copyrights, or rather, their absence. The ownership period of the image from the very first Disney cartoon about sneaky Mickey "Steamboat Willie" has expired. The current steamship, reinterpreted by the creators, will not please the kids: even the killer mouse will not appear, and debauchery and bacchanalia will already unfold on board. Even the kindest Mickey Mouse won't help here. In the role of Mickey is David Howard Thornton, who shone in the horror "Terrifying", about which there is not much to say except the name. "Mickey the Monster" is marked "18+": if reason and life are dear to you, heed this warning.
"Where's our money?"
April 10th
A trio of friends from a small provincial town in the 90s dreams of achieving success measured in hard currency. Having stolen an excavator, they use it to move towards their dream — to break into the vault of a local bank, from where they take out a million rubles. The next morning, however, it turns out that 25 million disappeared from the bank in the chaos caused by the bros, which means that another 24 million was either stolen by one of the participants in the raid, or the rest of the money was secretly taken by someone else, and now they are walking around the city. The boys are determined to find their 24 million, but it's not as easy as they expected.
The crime comedy genre, always beloved by the public, seems so deceptively simple that directors have been falling into this trap for years and decades, diluting shootouts with jokes and laying out banana peels in the robbers' paths. However, not everyone gets it: Guy Ritchie, who got into the top ten on his first attempt with his "Cards, money, two barrels", became a welcome exception. The rest have to go to the stars through thorns, and some of the thorns do not get out at all. This is especially true of Russian film producers who persistently build their criminal-comedy experiences in the style of jokes about the mother-in-law. However, director Vladimir Zinkevich seems to have found his way. His characters are alive, their stupidities are organic, their tricks are natural and dynamically move the plot. Alexey Serebryakov is perfect in his place with his trademark look, which has long weighed and appreciated all the abomination of this world.
"The Kraken"
April 17th
It seems that for the first time a full-fledged, discount-free domestic monster movie is being released. The question of who will beat whom — an elephant or a whale — has found a practical plane: a nuclear submarine will meet and fight a giant kraken in the Arctic. The generals worry about the super—secret weapons on board the boat, relatives and friends worry about the lives of the submariners, and the captain (Alexander Petrov — "Gravity", "Ice", "T-34") takes responsibility and does everything to save his people from the trap.
Nikolai Lebedev is a director who seems to be cramped within the same genre: following the fantastic "Snake Spring", he shot the military drama "Zvezda", followed by the fantasy "The Wolfhound of the Gray Dogs", followed by the sports drama "Legend No. 17", and, most surprisingly, did not allow There is not a single failure on such a winding path. Everything settled into a scale somewhere between "interesting" and "excellent." "Kraken" seems to be approaching its upper division. At first glance, there is practically nothing to it: successful casting, professional computer graphics, cheerful action. The final assessment, of course, will be given by the audience. The film is 12+, students are allowed.
"Deniskin's stories"
April 24th
In the fall, Deniska Korablev will have to go to school, and now he is going with his parents to his grandmother's cottage for all three summer months, where all the summer adventures that boys should have are waiting for him — fights with local boys, slingshot shooting, reconnaissance operations in abandoned barns, as well as first love, romantic dreams and even full of adventures. and the dangers of a boat trip in the name of a beautiful lady. Adults will be scared, swear and groan, but in the end, everything will end well, which means that overgrown skeptics will be put to shame.
The film adaptation, made, as the creators carefully say, "based on" the famous book, turned out to be quite "herbivorous". There are no broken knees, no torn favorite toys, and the angry grandmother does not cry or threaten with a belt, but laughingly cackles in unison with the villagers. Smart friends will tell you in time how to live properly: after all, every child of the Soviet country knew perfectly well that "girls are impressed by strong men with muscles." The country house interiors also came from somewhere from another era: a dozen adults gathered on a modest rustic veranda, huddling forlornly in the center of the hall with panoramic windows, it seems, equipped with plastic frames. And, it seems, there is nothing wrong with the silly advertising of glossy country happiness — but something hurts the eye all the time. Either a grandmother going out into the garden in a white blouse under a jacket, or a bicycle mounted on the top trunk of dad's car with a wheel across the airflow. It's inconvenient, Dad, to drive like this, your structure will collapse.
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