Where to go: the road movie "There", the drama "Faithful Friend" and the toothy thriller "Crimson Shoal"

Actor Peter Fedorov got behind the wheel of a taxi in the romantic road movie "There". Yuri Stoyanov, Gleb Kalyuzhny, Pavel Derevyanko, Kristina Babushkina, Sergey Makovetsky and other famous artists gave a second life to Zhvanetsky's monologues in the concert film of the same name. And Bill Murray's character, played by Naomi Watts, gives his girlfriend the opportunity to survive the loss in the drama "Faithful Friend" by bequeathing her a huge naughty dog. The thrillers "The Mysterious Murder of Belle" starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Guillaume Canet and "Crimson Shoal" about a meeting between divers and a killer shark are also being released in Russia. Izvestia — about which new films to watch in the cinema this weekend.

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A frame from the movie "There"

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Directed by Ivan Petukhov. Starring: Peter Fedorov, Irina Starshenbaum, Alexey Serebryakov, Evgenia Dobrovolskaya, Vladislav Tyrone, Stepan Devonin, Ingrid Olerinskaya, Anton Filipenko, Varya Vershinina

Before the release, the screening of the life-affirming romantic road movie "There" with Irina Starshenbaum and Peter Fedorov took place as part of the Russian Premieres competition at the 47th Moscow International Film Festival. He is a gloomy taxi driver who is used to living by the navigator. She is a cheerful, adventurous passenger. Together, these completely opposite people will have to travel a long way from Moscow to Ufa. Along the way, explore the beauty of Russia, stay overnight with the driver's parents and meet with his past.

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A shot from the movie "Zhvanetsky"

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Directed by Vadim Plokhotnikov. Starring: Evgeny Grishkovets, Natalia Zhvanetskaya, Dmitry Zhvanetsky, Yuri Stoyanov, Sergey Makovetsky, Igor Zolotovitsky, Ilya Sobolev, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Nastasia Samburskaya, Lyudmila Artemyeva, Kristina Babushkina, Stanislav Duzhnikov, Sergey Zhilin, Nikolai Valuev, Gleb Kalyuzhny, Nonna Grishaeva

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"Zhvanetsky" is not a biopic, as it might seem from the name, but a concert film. The creators set themselves the task of not only honoring the memory of the great author, but also breathing new life into his works, entrusting it to talented artists and gathering a serious star cast. On the screen are Mikhail Zhvanetsky's monologues, the revelations of the participants about the famous writer and the footage shot in his house.

"Faithful friend" 18+

A shot from the movie "Faithful Friend"

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Directed by Scott Mcgeehy, David Siegel. Starring: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Chloe Shoefler, Susan Linskey, Joel Van Lew, Josh Pace, Carla Gugino, Constance Wu

The 2018 film adaptation of the novel "Friend" by American writer Sigrid Nunez is a therapeutic story about how to survive a loss, especially if a loved one unexpectedly decided to leave. Iris, a writer from New York, inherits a huge dog named Apollo after her mentor's death. The dog is also grieving, and therefore does not obey and gives the new owner, who is not ready for such a neighborhood, a lot of problems. But in the end, they will have to learn how to live together and help each other cope with the loss. Starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a dog named Bing.

"Belle's Mysterious Murder" 18+

An image from the movie "The Mysterious Murder of Belle"

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Directed by Benoit Jacot. Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Guillaume Canet, Patrick Decamp, Jeremy Covillot, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Fabio Zenoni, Salim Cashews, Pauline Nirls, Kamel Bachage

"The Mysterious Murder of Belle" is another film adaptation. The film is based on the 1952 novel Death of a Beautiful Woman by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Starring French film stars Guillaume Canet and Charlotte Gainsbourg. In the center of the plot is a provincial teacher Pierre and his wife Clea. The measured life of the couple is disrupted by the murder of the beautiful young Belle, the daughter of their friends, who came to stay. The girl is found strangled in one of the bedrooms, and Pierre turns out to be the only one who was in the house at that moment.

"Crimson Shoal" 18+

A shot from the movie "Crimson Shoal"

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Directed by Matthew Holmes. Starring: Hermione Corfield, Jake Ryan, Josh McConville, Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Arthur Angel, Max Johnson, Clayton Watson, Kevin Dee, Will Fletcher, Sam Parsonson

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A tense survival thriller. The action takes place in post-war Australia. A team of divers agrees to help bandits lift a car from the bottom of a local river to save their company from ruin during this difficult time. At the bottom, they will have to face a deadly bull shark, but it turns out that there is nowhere to retreat — the bad guys do not accept the refusal of the order, because their car is filled to the brim with gold.

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A frame from the movie "The Deer"

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Directed by Mikhail Solovyov. Starring: Kuzma Saprykin, Olga Venikova, Daniil Vakhrushev, Viktor Vasiliev, Ekaterina Volkova, Mikhail Gorevoy, Era Ziganshina, Alisa Lisichkina, Alina Bolshakova, Dmitry Khrustalev

Love will fix the horned one, the old witch decided, and awarded horns to the ladies' man Andrei to teach him a lesson for spending a casual night with her granddaughter Nastya. The only way to get rid of them is to find the one in this world and have sincere and mutual feelings for her, which is not in Andrey's style, because he is used to just using girls. Nastya herself undertakes the re-education of the cuckold.

"King of Kings" 6+

A frame from the cartoon "The King of Kings"

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Director: Jang Song-ho. Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Kenneth Branagh, Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, Forest Whitaker, Ben Kingsley, Jim Cummings, Roman Griffin Davis, Ava Sanger

The animated film was shot by South Korean director Jang Song-ho based on the novel "The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ" by Charles Dickens. In the story, the writer's young son, obsessed with King Arthur, gets too excited and disrupts his father's performance. He first wants to punish the offspring, but then decides to tell him a story about another hero who can inspire the child. The boy's imagination takes him into a series of the most incredible events.