They shook the old days: Statham and Khabensky on their way to a wide audience

Super cool, despite his age, the retired operative is dealing with an army of younger government assassins. Jason Statham will not disappoint, this is exactly the kind of action his fans have been going to cinemas for for decades. Meanwhile, Konstantin Khabensky played one of the best roles of his career, and this is also a unique character, there were no such characters in our cinema. Live classics by Dominique Moll and Christian Petzold are also being released, and Olga Buzova's "Ravioli Oli" is launching for fans of Russian comedies. Izvestia has selected the most interesting novelties worth buying movie tickets for.

"Shelter" 18+

Directed by Rick Roman. Starring: Jason Statham, Bodhi Ray Bretnack, Michael Schaeffer, Anna Krilly

"Asylum" is now claiming to be the most successful weekend novelty in Russia, and the picture is doing well in the world, although not exactly very well. It was released worldwide just a week ago and started in sixth place in the United States. But at the same time, she is unlikely to beat off a budget of $ 50 million in a movie, Statham nevertheless chose a project that was too simple, if not defiantly primitive.

Imagine: a hermit lives somewhere on the island, who is a former hitman in the service of the American government. And one day, first a teenage girl falls on him, and then the whole army starts hunting for him.

It is enough to look at Statham's face to understand what will happen to this army next. And, most importantly, I don't really want to go to the cinema to see it with my own eyes anymore. Yes, operatives are never exes, but this one will definitely throw them all at once. But it's worth saying a few words about the girl, especially since she outplays Statham with one left hand. Bodhi Ray Bretnack is a Sanskrit-Irish name you'll have to remember. She just starred in Chloe Zhao's "Hamnet" and Robert Eggers' "Werewolf," and "Sense and Sensibility," by Jay Austen, is coming out soon. Critics are thrilled, the fan base is growing, and rising starlet Bodhi Ray Bretnack, paired with Statham, confidently demonstrates that the future belongs to her, and not to aging alpha males who kill seven in one fell swoop.

"Jura was here" 18+

Directed by Sergey Malkin. Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Denis Paramonov, Kuzma Kotrelev, Alexander Porshin, Vasily Mikhailov

It is difficult to say why the film "Jura was Here" was given an 18+ rating. Previously, students were taken to such paintings in organized classes, and it was not so much the artistic quality as the importance of the theme. After the film, of course, there was discussion, and sometimes essays were written. It is a pity that "Yura" is denied this.

It's quite a conservative dramedy by genre. There are three guys living in a rented apartment, one smart, two "fools". Or rather, two punks. They shout their songs to the guitar tunes, dream of becoming informal pop stars, or even formal ones, if they're lucky.

And then the uncle of one of the guys, an elderly non-speaking man named Yura with a severely neglected race, settles in their apartment for ten days. Yura is played by Konstantin Khabensky, and it's more than just a role. Young actors with a debutant director "tell a story," and Khabensky simply shows the whole world what autism is up close, how to be around it, whether to be afraid, what not to be surprised at, how to behave.

Yura is a completely living person, in this image there is so much that has been "spied on" and understood by the artist that reality emerges through the play in the young film, which many have never known. Because there has never been such a hero in our cinema before. You can read a little more about the film in the Izvestia review of this film. And schoolchildren — well, one day they'll watch this movie anyway, just without teachers and classmates.

"Case No. 137" 18+

Directed by Dominique Moll. Starring: Lea Drucker, Jonathan Turnbull, Matilda Roerich, Guslagi Malanga, Stanislas Merar

A few years ago, we talked with Dominique Moll, and he said at the time: "No one is obliged to agree with every person in a particular country, because we are all different. Therefore, I am against boycotting Russia and even more so depriving Russians of the opportunity to watch movies." Perhaps we owe these words, said a long time ago, to the appearance of "Case No. 137" in the official Russian box office.

Masquerading as a procedural, "Case No. 137" manages to touch literally all the pain points of the viewer. It's a nervous, smart and very sad movie. The main character, Stephanie, serves in a special department of the Paris police. The department where the crimes of the police themselves are investigated. Cops hate and despise such colleagues, they say, we serve and risk our lives, and you dig under your own. Ordinary people don't believe that: You're the same, how can you investigate something there? Just covering for friends in uniform, say so.

Stephanie is very lonely both at work and in life. And here she was clinging to a completely lost cause. The boy was so mutilated by the police at the rally that he is unlikely to return to normal life. The rally was hot, so the French riot police couldn't have done anything else. And Stephanie needs to collect all the details, letting buckets of slop pour over herself, because she really wants to find out the truth. Perhaps such a film is possible only in France, but it is very good that after the Cannes competition it was able to reach us, it is a journey that you will never forget.

"Reflections No. 3" 18+

Another film from Cannes, however, is not from the main competition, but from the refined but very important program "Directors' Fortnight". For example, it was there that the premiere of Valeria Guy Germanica's game debut "Everyone will die, but I will stay" took place. But for a classic of Petzold's level, this is also a prestigious event, where the most demanding audience on the entire Croisette comes.

The film is named after the third piece from Maurice Ravel's piano suite. A young pianist gets into a car accident, in which her boyfriend is killed. Laura herself miraculously remains unharmed, but is in deep shock. He is so strong that she involuntarily goes to live with Betty, a witness to the accident, and becomes practically a member of her family. But as the shock subsides, the heroine begins to suspect that she was invited to this family for a reason.

To the music of Ravel and Chopin, the outstanding actress Paula Behr conquers us with her playing, practically not even using words for this, working only with her eyes and gestures. This is a slow, heavy-emotion film that is not only not going to provide clues to its many mysteries, but on the contrary makes the mystery the very essence of the work. And this is one of the most powerful experiences in cinema this season.

"Ravioli Oli" 16+

Directed by Andrey Nikiforov. Starring: Olga Buzova, Vladimir Yaglych, Wolfgang Czerny, Maxim Lagashkin, Eva Smirnova, Marina Fedunkiv, Evelina Bledans

It almost sounds like a joke, but the only one of all the major new releases of the weekend that has been rated below 18+, meaning it is recommended for viewing by minors, is the comedy starring Olga Buzova. Maybe you shouldn't look for symbolism or deep meaning in this, but it's also difficult not to mention this fact.

Olga Buzova plays Olga Buzova, who finds herself in the position of Madame Gritsatsueva. The groom, skillfully using a German accent (by the way, he is played by Austrian Wolfgang Czerny), suggests that the future bride at the same time make a big business on dumplings in a provincial town called Nizhniye Teplyshki.

Inspired, Buzova invests in the project, but the groom disappears with the money, and Buzova herself begins to turn the town into a New Vasuki, realizing along the way that happiness is not in fame and money, but in this - in the earth, in dumplings, in people who are very good if you sometimes come down to them from Moscow skies.. Of course, this is not so much a movie as a joke with a large number of media personalities in the roles of themselves, with the possible exception of Vladimir Yaglych and Maxim Lagashkin, pretending (but not too hard) to be simple Russian men. It remains to be seen whether Buzova will have her own dumpling brand after this comedy, because the film will work perfectly as a marketing ploy.