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A dishonored journalist, who once was a star of the BBC office in Moscow, had lost his past fame and now became a laughing stock among all of his friends and colleagues. He fell into despair, he suffers from severe melancholy and it seems as if there is no way back on the top. Until one day, completely at random, someone gives him an idea of writing a story about a living person, the story of human interest. Previously, he was opposed to expose details of the personal lives of others to the public, but now, out of desperation, he agrees. What happens next was a complete abruptness for everyone and for him firstly. He gets acquainted with Philomena, whose story touches him so intensely, he not only writes it down to the tiniest detail, but follows her on the search of her son, who she have not seen in fifty years, since the day he was born.

Some people have always wondered why the audience is so attracted to the movies with a mark “based on a true story” occupy some special place in the cinematograph. No matter how amazingly talented, witty and intelligent is the director, no matter what is the scale of literary talent of a screenwriter and no matter whether the actors are able to conquer the viewers around the world with their sincerity and charisma. Movies, base on actual events, posses a kind of special charm, incomparable to any of all the fictional stories. Perhaps, the fascinating attraction of many of these films is explained by the fact that they are similar to our life situations. Others are probably shocking and striking with the realization that this story actually happened with someone in real life.

Who is Philomena? What she breathes on, what she lives for, what is so tremendously beautiful, tender and flagrant about her image? Of course, Stephen Frears, a born genius of cinematic drama and a winner of two awards at Berlin festival presents to the world another masterpiece with Judi Dench, after the great success of the Queen. A touching, tender, poignant Philomena – is a story that actually happened once with some ordinary people and can easily happen again with any of us. The details of the drama has not yet been disclosed the wide audience. However, some key moments of the story line could be seen in the Philomena trailer.

A wonderful duo of Judi Dench and Steve Coogan on the screen constitutes a unique harmony, making an already thin and delicate film even more affecting. Obviously, this subtlety has been fully appreciated be the greatest connoisseurs of cinematographic art – after the premiere of the Philomena at the Venice festival this year, the audience stood up and applauded to the masterpiece and its creators on their feet. After the professional had given their opinions, our only deal is to cry of enthusiasm and emotions, admiring the beauty and subtlety of Philomena.

So here is quite a mundane storyline about a gifted lawyer, who, being familiar with the law shortcuts, exceeds his rights in the chase for benefit and gets caught up in some criminal schemes, related to the traffic of a fantastic amount of drugs. Despite a mundane story, Ridley Scott seems to have surpassed himself. The new masterpiece by Ridley Scott, “Counselor”, due out at 25^th of October, will most likely respond even the most demanding images of the work of cinematic art. The author of “No Country for Old Men”, Cormac McCarthy wrote the screenplay for the “Counselor” and this fact by itself alone suggests that the film will surely be worth special attention. Trailer of The Counselor reveals only the key moments of the story line and does it pretty niggardly, so we can only guess, but the basis is extremely promising.

Of course, there are some menacing and dangerous villains, the power and bloodlust of which has no description, and terrible secrets, the disclosure of which threatens with some dire consequences. Unsurprisingly, the “Counselor” has a story of a tender and bland, yet very unhappy love, the illusion of a happy life, which is not destined to ever come true, an odd and unfaithful friendship and, of course, dashed hopes and dreams. The “Counselor” would not have anything so tremendously amazing in it, if not for Ridley Scott and his impeccable status of a great director, for Cormac McCarthy and his reputation as a talented writer, and, evidently, for the actors who has been chosen for the leading roles. The hapless counselor, who has been mercilessly betrayed by his fate, is performed by the matchlessly handsome in his dispassionate manner Michael Fassbender, his naïve sweetheart is tremendous Penelope Cruz. Other characters are not yet completely identified because of the mysterious trailer of the “Counselor”, but the reputation of the actors speaks for itself. On the secondary roles wicked Ridley Scott has chosen none other than Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem and Cameron Diaz.

“Counselor” was a legend even before the premiere. So there is no doubt that the very thriller is an unforgettable, unique spectacle that Ridley Scott once again sincerely gives to the craving fans.