Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shows (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw)

On August 1, the first spin-off of the popular Fast and the Furious media franchise featuring the heroes of Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, US special agent Luke Hobbs and United Kingdom spy Deckard Shaw, appeared on big screens. The staging of the ninth in a series of movie racing series engaged director of "John Wick" David Litch.

Not too good at each other, Hobbs and Shaw are forced to join forces in the fight against the antagonist with Brixton's superhuman abilities (played by Idris Elba), seeking to seize the deadly virus.

The creators of the tape significantly expanded the geography of the Fast & Furious action, incorporating landscapes of foggy London and the deserted territory of Chernobyl.

“Give Me Liberty”

In early August in the cinemas you will see the festival comedy “Giv mi liberti”. Road-movie, which takes place in one day, was filmed by a Russian emigrant and a US citizen, Kirill Mikhanovsky. The film participated in the “Directors' Double-Week” at Cannes and at the Sundance Independent Film Show.

Vick works in the service of social assistance and delivers sedentary citizens to different addresses. One day, he decides to help the motley company of Russian émigrés get to the girlfriend’s funeral and plunges them all into his bus. A company of Jews, Russians and Americans travels around the city with a accordion.

“Giv mi liberti” - the third full-length work of Mikhanovsky. The Moscow premiere of the tape took place at the Strelka Film Festival.

"How to launder a million" (La chute de l'empire américain)

Pierre-Paul is a professor of philosophy, but works as a courier. Once during the delivery of the order, he becomes a witness to the robbery of the bar. In a fierce firefight, both the criminals and the guards die, and the bag of money falls at the feet of the modest courier. Pierre-Paul is not lost: he has hit the jackpot and is trying to figure out where to put the money until the local mafia has found it.

Denis Arkan, the author of the Academy Award-winning Drama Invasion of the Barbarians, marked this crime comedy. The creation of the film director inspired a robbery that occurred in the Canadian Montreal in 2010. The film became a participant of the festival in Toronto and the international show in Valladolid (Spain).

Belzebuth

The world premiere of the horror film "Beelzebub" took place in the fall of 2017, but the picture reached the Russian hire only two years later - as often happens with low-budget and low-profile works of directors from non-countries - filmmakers.

Removed the tape Mexican Emilio Portes, author of the comedies "Pastorela" 2011 release and "The crime projectionist Gumaro" 2014th. "Veelvul" - Portes' first experience in the field of horror, and, according to foreign critics, is quite successful: the rating of "freshness" of the tape on Rotten Tomatoes is 75%, and the audience approval index is all 83%. Surprisingly, IMDb demonstrates much more modest results: the picture was given only 6.1 points.

The plot of "Beelzebub" is built around the mysterious murders of children committed in one of the Mexican cities. Detect the crime takes detective Ritter (Joaquin Cosio), whose child also died. Ritter turns for help to priest Ivan Franko (Tate Ellington), and together they make a number of horrific discoveries.

"Deer Skin" (Le daim)

French director (and in combination - the famous electronic musician) Quentin Dupieux considers “Deer skin” crazy but, at the same time, his first realistic tape. Someone's interpretation by the director of his own work can be puzzling: according to the plot, the main character George becomes obsessed with the expensive fashionable jacket he bought and begins to commit crimes because of her.

However, the same “Reality”, for which Dupieu received a nomination at the Venice Film Festival, is much more surreal: behind a strange love for an inanimate thing in “Deer Skin” lies ordinary human loneliness, which makes the plot of this picture a story that, in general , "Could happen to each of us."

The star in the film was played by the star of the comic genre, Oscar winner for the work on the film “Artist” by Michel Hazanavicius Jean Dujardin. Adel Enel ("Devils"), Marie Bunel ("Chorists") and others also appeared in the tape.