"Superheroes" (Supereroi)
Italian director Paolo Genovese, who directed the sensational film Ideal Strangers, presents a new melodrama with comedy elements - Superheroes.
Despite the title, the film has nothing to do with superheroes as the viewer is used to seeing them.
Instead of characters endowed with fantastic abilities, the plot is centered on an ordinary young couple in love.
They endure fights, lies, secrets, and betrayals and struggle to salvage the relationship.
The tape tells about couples and the impact of time on their feelings.
The authors of the film, through the story presented on the screen, are looking for an answer to the question: “What superpowers do you need to have in order to love each other all your life?”
Paolo Genovese chose a non-linear narrative for his picture, which allowed him to follow the relationship of the characters in different periods of their lives.
“It’s like I made two films.
The first ten years of this couple and the second ten.
They are analyzed in parallel.
It is interesting to see how the same situations, problems, fears, experiences are perceived (by them. -
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) in completely different ways at the beginning of the story and at a much more mature stage, ”the Opentapes portal quotes the director.
"Party on departure" (Murder Party)
Set in a 1950s-inspired world, the action of the French-made detective comedy Party Out takes place in luxurious locations and wears bright old-fashioned outfits.
The plot is based on the popular board game Cluedo.
Architect Jeanne hopes to get a contract to renovate the posh mansion that houses the Daguerre family, who own a board game empire.
The heroine meets family members, they make a negative impression on her, and the elder Daguerre decides to play Russian roulette in her presence.
Moments later, the man is found dead, and his killer leaves a message stating that he is one of the family members.
Jeanne has to take part in the investigation of the crime.
According to BMA author Michelle Hawkins, the film's narrative never slows down anywhere, as one problem inevitably leads to another, and finding clues becomes increasingly difficult.
Suspects with a dark past, thoughtful and funny plot and exciting implementation of the project made the reviewer delighted and charged with friendliness.
"Where Is Anne Frank" (Where Is Anne Frank)
Anne Frank is a Jewish girl born in Germany in 1929.
Shortly after the Nazis came to power, her family moved to Amsterdam.
When the Netherlands was occupied, Anna's older sister received a summons from the Gestapo.
Fleeing from persecution, the Frank family hid in a shelter for a long time.
Since 1942, Anna kept a diary in which she described the horrors of the war.
In its pages, she referred to a fictitious friend, Kitty.
The original diary is currently kept in the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam.
In the animated film "Where's Anne Frank" tells about Kitty - in our days, the girl unexpectedly leaves the pages of the diary and goes in search of Anna.
She can't find a friend, but she realizes that her legacy is everywhere.
In 2021, the film was presented in the program of the Cannes Film Festival and competed for the European Film Academy Award in the Best Animated Film nomination.
"Sasha.
Diary of a soldier»
Short 38-minute film “Sasha.
A Soldier's Diary is the directorial debut of actor Kirill Zaitsev, best known for his films Upward Movement, The Last Hero: The Root of Evil, and Eterna: Part One.
The plot is based on the story of Vyacheslav Kondratiev "Sashka".
As the director noted, his film presents "the story of a Russian soldier who always remains a man - even in the most difficult conditions of war."
A World War II veteran finds his old diary and relives the events of the 1940s.
He recalls taking a young German prisoner and telling him that Russian soldiers don't kill prisoners.
Soon the hero receives an order to shoot the captured and faces a difficult choice.