There are no festivals taking place in Kyiv at the moment.
Instead, the Kyiv Post is bringing you reviews of all three movies currently screening in foreign languages, and a review of the much-hyped latest production of Madonna.
Unfortunately, her film is only screening with Ukrainian dubbing.
Unfortunately, her film is only screening with Ukrainian dubbing.
THIRD STAR
Comedy, Drama
USA 2010, 92’
Language: English with Ukrainian subtitles
Directed by Hattie Dalton
Feb. 3, 6-8 at 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., Feb. 4-5 at 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Zhovten
Online and social media are busting with articles about time management, but what is the recipe of using time wisely for those who have not so much of it left?
James is 29 when he finds out that he has cancer and won’t celebrate his 30th birthday.
Asking his three closest friends to accompany him, the young man heads to his favorite place on earth – a beautiful and wild Welsh beach.
As James has troubles with his legs, his friends help him to move around on a special cart, and the closer their goal is, the harder it is for him to walk, and the more frank their conversations get.
Having no time to change his own life, James tells his pals what’s wrong with theirs.
Strong and beautiful, this drama impresses, without the annoying artificial tear-jerking.
WAITING LIST (LISTA DE ESPARA)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Spain 2000, 107’
Language: Spanish with Russian subtitles
Directed by Juan Carlos Tabío
Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.
Master Class Cultural Center
Everyone has found themselves on a bus stop right after its departure at least once in their lives, but in the city it’s quite easy to catch some other type of transport.
The situation is much more complicated when the terminal is somewhere in the middle of Cuba, where there is no other choice but to wait.
A weird group of 16 people, including a married couple, young lovers, a blind man and a party official, are forced to spend the night and even the next day together and come up with many great ways to have fun.
So, when they get a chance to leave early, no one wants to go any more.
VERTIGO
Mystery, Romance
Brazil 1958, 128’
Language: English with English subtitles
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.
Master Class Cultural Center
Vertigo is a pleasant experience when it’s caused by a girl you are in love with or a sudden success. But it turns into disaster, when it becomes chronic.
Detective Scottie Ferguson discovers he has acrophobia (irrational fear of heights) after his partner is killed while trying to save him from falling off a high building.
Getting vertigo each time he has to tackle a couple of stairs, he is forced to leave his career.
However, when his friend asks him to follow his spirit-possessed wife, Scottie agrees.
After saving Madeleine from suicide, former detective falls for her to discover she seems to feel the same.
W.E.
Drama, Romance
Ireland 2011, 119’
Language: Ukrainian
Directed by Madonna
From Feb.2
Most Kyiv cinemas
Hammered by the critics for “weak performances” and “risible dialogues,” Madonna’s movie “W.E” flopped at the 68th Venice Film Festival last September.
However, the 53-year-old American pop icon dismisses the negative feedbacks as exaggerated and evil.
W.E. stands for the names of the main characters: a divorced American woman Wallis Simpson and British king Edward VIII, who falls for her so badly that he gives up his throne to be with his ladylove.
Wally, a lonely writer living in Manhattan of 1998, is the third heroine of the plot – she is so inspired with the romantic and dramatic love story from the 1930th that it prompts her own investigation.
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