Movies on the go

“Another Earth” Mike Cahill

The main reason to watch this film in the summer, when at least some (hopefully) free your head, is simple: it is beautiful. Quite original and made by the authors, really devoted to the cinema. Art, the true work of which cannot be retold: its meaning and significance can only be expressed by cinematography by its inherent synthesis – images, actors’ voices, and music, and noises …

The heroine of the film – a young girl, a student, an intellectual and a beauty – did something terrible. Accidentally, through an oversight … But so terrible that there can be no forgiveness for this. However, it is in asking for him that Rhoda, after four years in prison, sees the meaning of his existence. Ask for forgiveness from the one whom she deprived of this meaning. And in the dialogue of the fates of the characters, in the dialogue of sin and ignorance, the action of the film develops. Which, surprisingly, belongs to the fantastic category. But fiction can be different: there is fairy-tale fantasy, fantasy (Tolkien), there is scientific (Azimov), philosophical (Strugatsky), social (Orwell). In The Other Earth, it seems, a new subgenre has been opened – existential-ethical fantasy. Its heroes live through their dramas in fantastic circumstances: Earth-2 is discovered not far from our planet, and absolute copies of us live our lives on it … The possibility of living a different fate is a wonderful metaphor and a wonderful chance for the story to develop! It is fully utilized by the writers – a young director and actress who together wrote this amazing story … no, a movie. Which is simply impossible to tell.

Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother.

DVDs.

Moonlight Kingdom Wes Anderson

A comedy about teenage love in and around the Boy Scout camp opened the Cannes Film Festival a month ago (which automatically brings any film under the halo of almost a masterpiece). And besides, it was made by a visionary without borders, Wes Anderson, who took up the inviolable romantic in his mockery. With a predictably ironic creative result. But not in the above reason to watch “Kingdom …”. It is more curious that the “Kingdom …” is paradoxically similar to our “Welcome, or No Trespassing”. And not only because the scene is a pioneer … sorry, Boy Scout camp. Much more fantastic that Bruce Willis here clearly acts as a doctor from “Welcome …”, signaling the danger by howling a siren. And Bill Murray reproduces the acting techniques of Yevgeny Evstigneev … It would be good to think about the phenomenon of this similarity with a view of the sunset of the luminary into the depths of the sea.

Cast: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray.

“Music Bound Us” by David McKenzie

There are no stars in this British comedy, but there is an energy of youth. Under the pop name, received for Russian distribution, a witty story is revealed: a pop singer-star and a soloist of a girl punk band, usually harboring mutual dislike, before the most important events in their lives, found themselves shackled by police handcuffs alone. “Bound in One Chain” as a title would be more suitable: a story about hatred, from which, as it turns out, one step to love, exudes the spirit of genuine rock desperation. The amazing Natalia Tena in the form of a punk hooligan is clearly responsible for this case.

Cast: Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena.

“1+1” Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano

A film from Europe, about a disabled person, with a budget of 12 million dollars, grossed 340 million worldwide. This phenomenon in itself is the reason to run after the disc. For those for whom the general delight is not decreed, something else can convince. “1 + 1” is about people with completely different roots and views. But an elderly disabled aristocrat, Frenchness itself distilled, and a black guy from a thug suburb, hired by him as a nanny, are capable of joint dizzying adventures and human intimacy. Is there anything more relevant and uplifting in our hopelessly classified world?

Cast: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy.

DVD, Blu-ray.

Marigold Hotel. The Best of the Exotic John Madden

Britons of retirement age travel to India to the highly recommended Marigold Hotel. But when they arrive, they discover that it is not at all a piece of paradise that their imagination and advertising brochures have drawn for them. That the East is very different from the West. That you will have to overcome everyday difficulties and cultural contradictions with a radically exotic environment. That they are destined to do this – with all the individualism of each – together. And that life does not end with retirement, that the fullness of its feeling is more important than personal achievements, that it is never too late for feelings. And also that you can’t throw your libido out of the window. And all these discoveries are clearly based on the personal experience of the author – director Madden is almost a classic and almost retired.

Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, tried and tested for decades.

DVD, Blu-ray.