Editor’s note: Kyiv cinemas were left short of English-language copies of the latest world releases yet again. So we hope you enjoy practicing your Russian and Ukrainian watching this selection of films in Russian with Ukrainian subtitles.
JANE EYRE
USA 2011
Directed by Cary Fukunaga
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell
It seems that major film studiosare running short of ideas and are reluctant of trying something new and risky.Instead, they hire young directors and unknown actors and bless them with a chance to retell evergreen stories once again.
This scenario rings true for young documentary director Cary Fukunaga and fledgling Hollywood star Mia Wasikowska who shot to fame with another take on “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte.
The film is about a young girl who enters adult life as a governess after bleak childhood. She meets Mr. Rochester, her new master, who seems cold and estranged but also virtuous and noble.
She falls in love with him but soon finds out that her lord has a terrible secret.
Watch this movie if you are fond of Bronte’s novels or simply love melodramas.
Everyone else can give it a miss and rent a classic Franco Zefirelli’s 1996 film of the same name on DVD instead.
HIDDEN
USA 2011
Directed by Antoine Thomas
Starring Sean Clement, Simonetta Solder
A group of young people decide to spend a weekend in an abandoned monastery that used to be a place for some secret medical research.
They soon find out the nature of horrible experiments: Scientists tried to eradicate some human vices with the help of exorcism. They failed but spirits remained in the walls of the monastery waiting for revenge.
If you have 90 minutes to spare, watch this nice little horror film. It’s a typicallow-budget scary movie, but is still worth watching.
APOLLO 18
USA 2011
Directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego
Apollo 18 mission was abandoned and NASA never returned to the moon.
No clear explanation has ever been given to that fact except for the lack of money, which didn’t seem like a genuine excuse.
This film attempts to explain what happened telling the story of two astronauts who were secretly sent to the Moon and found something so scary and terrible that NASA abandoned the mission forever.
It is one of those “found footage” movies in the spirit of “Blair Witch Project” and “Paranormal Activity.” It has been unfairly underrated by the critics but it’s one of the best films in its genre.
UKRAINA
5, HorodetskohoSt., 279-6750
Jane Eyre
Sept. 1 – Sept. 7, 12:10 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 9 p.m.
APOLLO 18
Sept. 1 – Sept. 7, 10:40 a.m., 12.30 p.m., 5 p.m., 9.30 p.m.
MEGAPLEX
34 Moskovsky Pr-kt., 498-4833
Hidden
Sept. 1 – Sept. 7,10:30 p.m.
APOLLO 18
Sept. 1 – Sept. 7, 2:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
