Those who didn’t get a chance to enjoy the Danish Triumph Film Festival in Kyiv cinema last week still have a chance to catch up.
Some movies will continue screening through the end of the week.
Those who want more can choose between a classical American comedy, a Spanish drama and a French documentary.
THEY DID NOT ALL DIE BUT WERE ALL SHRUNK (ILS NE MOURAIENT PAS TOUS MAIS TOUS ETAIENT FRAPPES)
Documentary
France 2005, 80’
Language: French with Ukrainian subtitles
Directed by Sophie Bruneau
Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.
Budynok kino
This movie won’t thrill you with either its video effects, or twists and turns of the plot. If it does touch you, it will do it through realism and honesty.
This documentary takes the audience to offices of various psychologists in three public clinics of Paris, where four patients talk about the problems they face at work.
These four separate stories of a factory worker, a nurse, an agency chief and a shop manager will show you how similar (and trivial, to be honest) our job dramas are.
GREEN STONES (PIEDRAS VERDES)
Drama, Adventure
Mexico 2001, 88’
Language: Spanish with Russian subtitles
Directed by Ángel Flores Torres
Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
Master Class Cultural Center
Educated in a strict religious school, Mariana has a strained relationship with her adoptive mother Dolores.
After her husband’s death, the woman starts to show signs of unwillingness of letting her daughter have any of the family treasures.
After having a row with her drug dealing boyfriend she moved with after leaving school and home, 18-year-old Mariana embarks on a weird and sometimes mysterious journey to find her biological father.
Her real mother, who could have helped in the girl’s mission, had been hit by a train 18 years ago, and the baby girl was delivered by surgery right after the tragedy.
A DAY AT THE RACES
Comedy
USA 1937, 95’
Language: English with English subtitles
Directed by Sam Wood
March 1 at 7 p.m.
Master Class Cultural Center
Born to a family of Jewish emigrants from Europe in New York City crack of the 19th and the 20th centuries, five of six Marx brothers made a real impact on the history of movies.
Shortly after their first movie, “Humor risk” was released, they became famous as the Marx Quintet at first. Later, only three of them (Groucho, Chico and Harpo) continued starring in their trademark comedies.
Marx Brothers, whose five movies of the total of 13 were listed by the American Film Institute in top 100 best comedies of all times, today are compared to such comedy icons like the legendary Charlie Chaplin.
“A day at the races” is the second film, where three brothers starred – the first one was the sensational “A night at the opera” in 1935.
The plot of “A day at the races” tells the story of Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian pretending to be a human doctor.
Employed by Judy Standish, an owner of the financially strapped Standish Sanitarium, he tries to come up with an idea that could help her save the Sanitarium.
