On unknown paths: what film premieres await us in August
The August premieres mostly relate to light topics — vacations, vacations, surf and light novels. Even in the dark fantasy "The Girl-Woman: The Enchantress Doll," the main character is relaxing in the country, and the spy children in the film of the same name are learning super-agent wisdom at a summer camp. Izvestia tells about the most interesting film premieres in August.
"The girl-woman: The Enchantress Doll"
August 7th
A shot from the movie "The Girl-woman: The Enchantress Doll"
12-year—old Tanya is an insecure teenage girl. During the holidays at the cottage, she meets her neighbor Eva, who teaches her how to create motan dolls, archaic female mascots. Tanya makes a doll, more out of interest than really hoping for her help, but soon discovers that her motanka is really magical. Phantasmagorical events begin to happen around the girl, and when her friend's treacherous father kidnaps the doll, the girl realizes that things are heading for disaster and she will have to be brave to prevent it.
The fashionable urban fantasy theme in the interiors of the professors' dachas is played out very stylishly — gloomy forest landscapes are replaced by urban jungles, and the tangible spirit of Russian chthony penetrates into cozy cottages with glazed verandas under the cover of night. The story is similar to those that are told in terrible whispers in the bedrooms of children's camps after lights out — and perhaps teenagers will really be impressed, especially since a rating of 6+ will allow parents to consider movies as children's. It is somewhat embarrassing that the role of 12-year-old Tanya was played by 19—year-old Taisiya Kalinina - nevertheless, the age gap between the actress and the heroine is quite critical. But don't make a face in advance: the risky bet played well. Kalinina really looks younger than her age, and her acting talents are quite enough to pull off the main role.
"Athel-matel"
August 7th
A shot from the filming of the movie "Athel-Matel"
Sasha Rodionov is a cashier and a crook, but one day, faced with a tough client, he made a mistake. Now he is forced, on pain of death, to dutifully cooperate with the investigation and hide in a Dagestan village lost in the mountains under the witness protection program, taking his family with him at the same time. In order for his wife and children not to be scared, Sasha convinces them that they are going on vacation, and presents the dilapidated barn in which they are to settle as an ultra-trendy eco-hotel. The wife believes — and is so actively pursuing her dream of starting her own business that it is becoming a reality. Which, however, brings Sasha some problems, because the numerous enthusiastic online reviews about the mountain eco-hotel very soon become known to his creditor ...
Films about the funny bad luck of funny crooks with a local flavor are always popular — let's recall the countless film adaptations of Ilf and Petrov's dilogy, even comedies with Celentano, even the cheerful gypsies of Kusturica. The creators of Athel-Matel seem to have studied the latter's work especially carefully: a folk music ensemble enthusiastically pounding drums inside a broken groove, the eternal attempts of a local policeman to dance a lezginka, a wooden toilet over a precipice, and a girl who is sure that nirvana is a place away from Derbent, with some geographical correction would fit into the "Black cat, white cat."
"We need to make films about love"
August 14th
A shot from the movie "We need to make films about love"
A director named Roman, along with a film crew, goes to the Indian city of Varanasi, where he enthusiastically indulges in creative idleness, searching for the meaning of life and philosophical conversations. The mysterious and gloomy atmosphere of the Indian slums forces the actors and the director to re-evaluate their own life aspirations, the essence of filmmaking, and the paradigm of being. And although these philosophical vigils, of course, interfere with filming, but this is not the main thing, the film will shoot itself, because films about love should be shot that way.
46-year—old Roman Mikhailov is a Doctor of Physico-mathematical Sciences, professor, specialist in homological and homotopy algebra, author of more than 60 scientific monographs. In 2022, he announced the end of his scientific career and plunged headlong into cinema, having managed to shoot six films in three years and receive a considerable number of professional awards. Such a person should make an author's film, and Mikhailov's existence is an undoubted success for the domestic art house. Mark and Genghis are played by Mark Edelstein and Genghis Garayev, and Roman is directed by guess who. What happens on the screen is natural, as is love. In this case, it is the undisputed love of the director and the entire film crew for freedom, creativity and cinema. Mikhailov generously shares it — do not refuse. It will be interesting.
"Eden"
August 14th
A shot from the movie "Eden"
In 1929, a group of Europeans, tired of the hypocritical values of bourgeois society, left for the Galapagos Islands to build a life free from unnecessary conventions. Some dream of meditating, some dream of writing a political manifesto, and some even dream of setting up a luxury blackjack hotel on the island. The lack of familiar amenities creates a lot of problems for an intelligent company, and ideological differences become a real time bomb that undermines the serene tranquility of the self-proclaimed Eden. Conflict follows conflict, and now the worst manifestations of the modern world from which the new islanders fled — deception, hypocrisy, theft and murder — are catching up with them at the edge of the world.
The authors defined the film as a satirical thriller. However, strong Hollywood executive Ron Howard adapts to any genre with equal ease, whether it's the production drama "Apollo 13" or the detective thriller "The Da Vinci Code", the surreal biopic "Mind Games" or the gloomy children's fairy tale "The Grinch Stealer of Christmas". And even in the most unexpected experiments, he is successful. So the film is worth paying attention to, especially since the cast is stellar: Jude Law, Daniel Bruhl ("Inglourious Basterds") and Sidney Sweeney ("Once upon a Time in Hollywood").
"Child spies"
August 21st
A frame from the movie "Spy Kids"
Super Agent Golos is raising three children alone. He brings them up as well as he can, and therefore, in their tender teenage years, Mikhail, Vita and Dana know martial arts perfectly well, they can hack any computer system and professionally master hypnosis. They dream of finding their mother — also, of course, a super agent who disappeared many years ago while performing a particularly dangerous task, but for this you need to study well. Therefore, the children will have to take a training course in a secret boot camp for juvenile superagents, which is a hybrid of a rusty pioneer camp and glamping in the deep forests. As a graduation thesis, they will participate in a real undercover operation and, as a bonus, the opportunity to show off their outstanding fighting skills to their classmates.
In the process of even a brief retelling of the plot, Robert Rodriguez, the director and screenwriter of "Spy Kids" without a hyphen, of course, would have burst into tears more than once. And Rick Riordan, the author of the novel "Percy Jackson and the Olympians," where a notable piece of action takes place in a training camp for demigod warriors, would also have a topic for conversation with the creators of the original comedy. But that's okay—after all, ideas are in the air. Another thing is worse: if Antonio Banderas played the super agent in the original Rodriguez film, then Dmitry Nagiyev appeared in the Russian film as a Voice to the public, and this comparison may seem offensive to the special services. And it was absolutely not worth it to assign Ian Fleming's Voice a prefix of two zeros, giving a license to kill: after all, if "agent 007" sounds solid and even scary somewhere, then "zero zero ge" causes very confusing analogies.
"Exit 8"
August 28th
A frame from the movie "Exit 8"
A young man wakes up and finds himself in an unknown underpass — tiled, sterile and deserted. The only thing he knows is that to save his life, he needs to get to exit number eight. However, it is almost impossible to find him: with every step, the corridors distort and change direction, shadows thicken behind him, reality blurs more and more, and every mistake on the route returns to the beginning of the path...
The psychological horror film was based on the walking simulator game of the same name, which gained popularity due to the oppressive gloomy atmosphere created by the most minimalistic means. The filmmakers kept the visual part as close to the original as possible — it turned out to be an exemplary horror film, where the main character has to get out of a maze full of horrors. In May, the film was shown in the program of the Cannes Film Festival in the "Midnight Screenings" category, and that means something. Fans of the genre will be pleased.
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