XV New British Film Festival

City:
Moscow

Cinemas:
Documentary Film Center
Formula Kino Horizont

Dates:
28 October – 9 November 2014

Partners:
British Council
CoolConnections


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Жизнь прекрасна
Life is Sweet

Country: Great Britain
Year: 1990
Director: Mike Leigh
Cast: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea
Genres: comedy, drama
Language: English
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 1 hour 43 minutes
Возраст: +

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy.

Awards and festivals:

Bodil Award - Best European Film
Independent Spirit Award Nomination - Best Foreign Film
London Critics Circle Award - British Film of the Year
Los Angeles Crirtics Circle Award - Best Supporting Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award - Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress
Taormina International Film Festival - Golden Charybdis Award, Golden Mask Award

Schedule:

Moscow: Formula Kino Horizont

7 November, Friday

19:00 Life is Sweet