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Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Depp and … pigs. It is them that you will be able to see in the cinema this spring, however, not on the same screen. We have chosen 3 films that will make you think about the most important thing – the value of life.
“Father”
A business. Six Oscar nominations for this film are not accidental: watching it is like climbing an unapproachable peak. Overcome yourself and gain previously unknown experience. After all, it is about how dementia absorbs a once powerful, brilliant personality. And about how the hero’s daughter, played by Olivia Colman, is trying to cope with her father’s illness. In the play, written by director Florian Zeller, the hero’s name is André. In the film, he became Anthony: the performer of this role, 84-year-old Anthony Hopkins, asked to give the hero his name, as if out of solidarity with him.
Laboratory. “Father” is the debut in film direction of the 42-year-old Frenchman Zeller, one of the most “repertory” playwrights in the world. It was also staged here: in Sovremennik, RAMT and in the enterprise. In the film, the author managed to overcome the “laboratory nature” of his play: the action in it takes place within four walls, literally – in the hero’s apartment. In the cinema, she turned out to be a trap for a freedom-loving, domineering personality. And there are never more than three characters in the frame.
preliminary diagnosis. Cinema now pays attention to topics that were previously treated with caution. “Still Alice” with Julianne Moore, “Supernova” with Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth, “Roads Unchosen” with Javier Bardem are about dementia as a drama of losing oneself. But is it not because they have become possible that we now expect from the cinema and a direct conversation about what it is customary to fear? On the audience’s noble stoicism – the ability to look into the eyes of their fears – “Father” also counts. And in this sense, he is true to the very essence of art, which is actually intended to expand our poor personal experience through the experience of other people’s destinies and feelings.
Genre: drama. Directed by Florian Zeller. In theaters from 15 April
Olivia Coleman
The fate of 47-year-old Briton Olivia Colman is a rare exception among female acting destinies: she gained recognition corresponding to her talent only two years ago with the role of Queen Anne in The Favorite, for which she received an Oscar. But now it is clear that the throne goes to the actress. Another of her queens, Elizabeth II, is an unconditional decoration of the Crown series.
Gunda
This documentary seems to be a manifesto of veganism, chosen by author Viktor Kosakovsky as a way of life since childhood. An almost entirely black-and-white film that dispenses with human speech (only animals from a farm in Norway act in it), it raises questions about all life on the planet without exception.
In theaters April 15
“Big”
Military photographer Eugene Smith did not even imagine that one call would make him the author of masterpieces. A Life magazine photographer was the last hope of a Japanese woman who begged him to make a report on the Minamata eco-disaster. A catastrophe that was hushed up by the authorities of the country.
Genre: drama. Cast: Johnny Depp, Hiroyuki Sanada. In theaters April 22