Movies in times of war at Russian Centre
View(s):The Russian Centre will screen two internationally famed Russian and American movies on March 29. ‘The Help’, a 2011 American drama film adaptation of the novel of the same name will be screened at 4 pm at the Russian Centre Auditorium. Directed by Tate Taylor the is woven around a young white woman, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson during Civil Rights era America (the early 1960s). Skeeter is a journalist who decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids (referred to as “the help”), exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.
Set in Jackson, Mississippi, it stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Sissy Spacek, Mike Vogel, Cicely Tyson and Allison Janney. In February 2012, the film received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Davis, Best Supporting Actress for Chastain and the film became an unexpected box office smash.
Award winning Russian film ‘House of Fools’ directed by Andrei Konchalovsky will be screened at 6 pm on March 29. The film is about psychiatric patients and combatants during the First Chechen War. It stars Yuliya Vysotskaya and Sultan Islamov and features a number of cameo appearances by Bryan Adams, with the music composed by Eduard Artemyev.
Distinctly anti-war, unbiased and controversial in Russia, ‘House of Fools’ is a bizarre blend of black comedy, touching drama, horrific warfare and subtly disturbing psychological content. The film is rated R for wartime violence, occasional profanity and nudity.The story of the film was partially inspired by the real-life tragedy of the psychiatric hospital in Shali, Chechnya, which was abandoned by the personnel during the Russian bombing campaign and in which many patients subsequently died from attacks and neglect.
The film won Venice Film Festival – Grand Special Jury Prize and UNICEF Award and – Jury Award at Bergen International Film Festival. Entrance to the film screening is Rs. 100.
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