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Sunday, July 4, 2010 free • page 1 ENG Bilingual program day DIVÁCKÁ CENA / AUDIENCE AWARD Today’s Official Variety Critics’ Choice for tomorrow DENÍKU Selection films Vote for the best film of the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival! (Czech Section: pages 8, 9, 10) page 2 3 page 4 (Czech Section: page 2) THE LOWDOWN
You can slap them in the face Don’t mess with the orange- clad KVIFF security guards this year; they may look like Easyjet Thelma Schoonmaker divulges editing dos and don’ts staff, but The Lowdown saw a group of them toying with an Will Tizard Photo: Jan Handrejch American-style police baton one evening, so behave! And perhaps they need to be vigilant Three-time Oscar winner – everyone and their dog seem Thelma Schoonmaker, at to be at KVIFF this year. But KVIFF to present one dog at least has nothing to a meticulously restored version worry about from security; Pés of her late husband Michael Fešák Okatý (“Mr. Dog, Powell and Eric Pressburger’s Handsome Big-eyes” – a well 1948 masterwork The Red deserved sobriquet) wandered Shoes, says that four decades as up to The Lowdown proudly Martin Scorsese’s editor has sporting a KVIFF pass on his taught her much about the collar. Our sources tell us no importance of using the right less than six hounds of various film techniques at the right shapes and sizes are fully times. accredited. If this seems unusu- I al to you, bear in mind that this You’ve said that Scorsese is a country where people take demands quiet on his film sets their dogs to work, to art school, and will often speak to his and even to nightclubs. actors in a whisper off to the On its travels yesterday, The side when he needs something Lowdown picked up two from them. Why is that so invaluable pieces of advice for important? any wannabe filmmakers from When I talk to film students, Nuummioq directors Torben there are so many egos in the film Bech and Otto Rosing. The business I try and tell them that first, and the catchiest: “Never respect is a very critical part of use your own money.” And the how Marty directs. He has so second? Sometimes the most much respect for the actors – important job of a production that’s very important for film- Legendary American editor Thelma Schoonmaker in Karlovy Vary. assistant is guarding an antique makers to learn. There are so toy monkey. In fact, sometimes I many egos and jealousies… that’s In looking over Raging their faces begin to change and never went down – so when Sugar distorted, backwards, and the last that’s the only job of what we love about The Red Bull, for which you took the they realize this is getting to be Ray pulls back and can’t figure sound you hear in the film, when a production assistant. Shoes because it’s just as much 1980 Oscar for editing, there a life-and-death situation. out why he can’t get him to go the door shuts, there’s a drum And oh, the opening party! about filmmaking as about the are mostly conventional shots In Raging Bull, I think Marty down, Frank said, “Take the sound. Brilliant. All that we’ve come to expect – world of ballet. with the dialogue scenes and must have had a sense that the sound away” …and you hear He would audition five differ- I vast amounts of meat, packed Does that obsession with many longish, uncut takes. intense scenes of the fights would nothing but a little bit of animal ent punches. For the big punches, hallways, and a fitting choice of performance limit what you can Have things changed so much work well with other scenes breathing. we would listen to five different music. Who else but smooth do technically afterwards to fix that you could never make around them more simple. It Then he comes back in for the punches. God knows how he Czech rap/urban/soul group problems? a film that way now? would make them more powerful. kill and the camera ramps up to made them. Most people don’t Navigators could so perfectly I We hate to do looping after- No. Scorsese knows how to use It can be like music, speed and the sound comes roar- even realize it. They’re feeling it, complement the giant white wards because Scorsese says, “I the tools. Not every shot has to be I suppose – calm alternating ing back in – that was Frank’s but they don’t realize it. plastic palm trees with glowing I didn’t spend all that time getting a zoom-in, hand held. Is that right with powerful sections for the idea and we’ve used it a lot since. And that’s what great edit- coconuts? that performance to then go into for that scene? Is it right for that whole to work. And sound is so That idea that silence is more ing is in many cases? When you And out in the garden later a room where a man is standing in line? I show students the scene in important in those fight scenes important. Frank used all these don’t notice it at all? on, looking up at the neo- front of a screen with Goodfellas with Joe Pesci where in Raging Bull, isn’t it? beautiful animal sounds in Sometimes. Sometimes you Baroque façade of the Pupp, we a microphone and try to get the it starts out as a funny scene and Absolutely. Frank Warner, our Raging Bull – sometimes when want people to notice it. For were touchingly reminded of same thing.” But sometimes Ray Liotta says “You’re so sound editor, was a genius. One Jake comes in for the kill it’s an example, in the fights, that’s the how perfect the combination of I need the line – it’s not intelligi- funny,” and then Pesci gets angri- of the most important things he elephant bray. Who would ever kind of editing you want people music and filmmaking can be ble, maybe it was poorly recorded er and angrier – “What’s so funny taught us was to take sound away think of that? Or when he knocks to notice. Mainly you don’t want with Bryan Adams’s moving – and he will not, will not [record about me?” – and he shot it all in at critical moments. In the final Sugar Ray down in the second people to see it, but it’s not a rule 1991 classic (Everything I Do) it in the studio]. That’s why he medium shots because he wanted scene where Sugar Ray defeats fight, it’s a horse shuddering. And that can’t be broken. We some- I Do It For You, still bringing gets such great performances – to see the reaction of the men LaMotta but he can’t make him the very beautiful use of one times like to slap the audience in tears to our eyes 19 years on. I it’s the respect! around him, and Ray Liotta, as go down – because Jake LaMotta drum that he played himself – the face. I
EXPLAINER SEE YOU THERE So Karlovy Vary is a spa town, right? Despite the relaxing sounding The history is actually pretty Quinn Saunders descriptor, Karlovy Vary’s reputa- rich, dating back to at least the Director of Cherry. tion as a spa town has been built 1300s, when the first of more than on geothermal oddities and proce- 60 hot springs (ranging from 34 to I’m really looking forward to seeing Snap. I met the dures that have very little to do 73°C) in the area was found to director Carmel Winters on the drive here. She told me with lounging in bubbling water have healing properties. They all about her film and it sounds amazing. It did really well at under the stars with a Chardonnay seem to offer their own advan- Tribeca also. I had some friends who saw it there. The in hand. That would be more typi- tages. thing about it that interests me is that it has an unortho- cal of Napa Valley, California – Some are considered beneficial dox structure and narrative. It tells the story of but their idea of spas is not quite to drink, as long as you use the a kidnapping backwards and uses mixed media. how they’re thought of here. with every manner of ailment obvi- special ceramic pitchers that are I also want to see Submarino. Mainly, I simply want to The official website of this ously don’t mind that things here a Karlovy Vary trademark, with the see what Thomas Vinterberg is doing. We don’t get all his resort (www.karlovyvary.cz), are pretty clinical – or are at least spout in the handle (designed to films in America. They’re hard to get sometimes. I’m describes the city’s twelve famous willing to put up with that help you get the water past the a big fan of The Celebration and I’m just really curious to thermal springs under the thrilling approach, which still dominates teeth so its minerals don't damage see what his next film is. title “History of Balneology in most of the city’s spa facilities. their enamel). Karlovy Vary,” adding, for good Some, it must be said, have Others are thought better for Snap screens today at 6:30pm in the Thermal’s Small measure, that doctors prescribe changed little from their portrayal bathing or for other uses, including Hall and tomorrow at 10am in the Drahomíra Cinema. them to treat digestive tract disor- in the Oscar-nominated Philip colonic irrigation. Some, in nearby Submarino screens today at 2pm in the Karlovy Vary ders, diabetes, gout, obesity, gin- Kaufman film “The Unbearable Jáchymov for example, are actual- Theatre as well as tomorrow (7pm, Espace Dorleans givitis, and even as post-cancer Lightness of Being,” in which fat ly radioactive, and this is said by Cinema and July 8 (1:30pm, Pupp Cinema). therapy. men in bathing caps are depicted some to offer health benefits (yes, Cherry. screens today at 7pm in the Espace Dorleans Of course, the more than 6 mil- paddling around floating chess- benefits, not hazards – that’s what Cinema. (COC) lion folks from all over the world boards. they say, at any rate). (WT)
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OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION The Mosquito Net – Sweet Evil – a comically Hitchcockian impossible tragedy suspense with a Gallic twist Ilona Francková Will Tizard Spanish director Agustí Vila is presenting his third feature The In Sweet Evil, director and Mosquito Net at KVIFF today as writer Olivier Coussemacq cre- part of this year’s Official ates a classic suspense film while Selection. Featuring Geraldine spinning the tale of a seemingly Chaplin in an eye-catching role as innocent young girl, Céline, who a senile grandmother, this movie is far from what she seems. takes an unflinching, albeit darkly Found sleeping rough in the gar- comic, look at an affluent family Photo: KVIFF den shed of an affluent judge and Photo: KVIFF in crisis. The Mosquito Net featuring Geraldine Chaplin. his wife, they offer her a home. Olivier Coussemacq’s psychological thriller Sweet Evil. I Your movie has been com- After she gains their goodwill and pared to Luis Buñuel’s The scenes in the movie but the sex is ously sometimes in a more subtle affection, however, they soon could not help but affect my sub- structed as a thriller. I wanted to Discreet Charm of the always twisted somehow. How way than others, almost using realize that their comfortable conscious. I do remember I was literally hold the viewer before Bourgeoisie. Do you think it’s was it for you and the actors to dark humor. When I see the world is sliding off its axis. thinking about making a subjec- addressing his moral compass to a fair comparison? work on those scenes? assembled film I still think of it as Much of the film’s chilling tive scene of the judge going up deliver uncertainty and questions Well, I am much more interest- Sex is an expression of desire a comedy. It is a comedy about the undertone is carried by the young the stairs of the house and coming with the face of young Céline’s ed in Buñuel’s Mexican films than and love, but love is not easily impossibility of the tragedy. There lead Anaïs Demoustier. The near the room of the young girl in lies, her effect and irresistible his French productions. And yes, expressed. Sex has its own codes are situations that should turn into youthful actress is something of homage to the scenes of charm.” during the shooting Buñuel often and, in this film, characters are a tragedy, even though the tragedy a discovery by Coussemacq, who Spellbound, but I couldn’t do it in Coussemacq manages to keep came to my mind and I thought of confused about all kinds of codes. never occurs. And the way the knew she was a natural for the the end because the floors of the audiences on the edge of their him in some of the scenes. They avoid the complexity and characters hide this tragedy is role as soon as she auditioned. “I house were actually shot at differ- seats by adopting a ruthless Viridiana clearly inspired me interpret words or attitudes literal- what makes situations more saw the Céline I was dreaming ent locations.” approach in the cutting room that while creating the character of ly. Finally they become victims of comic, even if this humor is often of,” he says. “She surprised me – Although Coussemacq didn’t is often lacking in some of his Luis, and his extreme need to give this complexity. cruel. she was manipulative, charming, manage a direct tribute to auteur compatriots. love – in this case animals are the I Do you think the audience I Was it hard to shoot The innocent but with perversity. Hitchcock in Sweet Evil, he cer- “When we finished shooting, object of his love. can relate to any of these com- Mosquito Net, which features Direction was necessary really tainly succeeded in ratcheting up a lot of scenes were cut in editing I How did you convince plex characters? several dogs, cats and even only for the details.” the tension in a manner that because they broke the rhythm of actress Geraldine Chaplin to The film is not naturalistic, it is a pigeon? Somewhat unusually for would have made the old master the progression of the story,” he star in this movie and to accept fiction. I think there is a lot of It was actually easier than we a French film, Sweet Evil wears proud. says. “I’m obsessed with wanting an unusual “mute” role? each of us in every character, in all expected. After all, animals are its classic Hollywood influences “Suspense is first about captur- to not be annoying for the viewer. The producer Luis Miñarro sent a higher or lower dose… There more predictable than human on its sleeve, with Hitchcock, in ing the attention of the audience, There is no scene like that which the script to Geraldine. She liked are always situations in which we beings. Usually it is harder to particular, looming large. “I don’t and this proposition is still perti- will survive, even if it’s perfect. If it very much and accepted to do it can see ourselves, even if we do work with human complexity. have the feeling that the classics nent in these times, when there is I feel it will annoy the viewer, for a considerably lower fee. She not reach the tragic absurd degree are very honored in my country, a profusion of images ad nause- I cut it.” liked the idea of performing that the film achieves. The Mosquito Net screens where we are still obsessed with am,” he says. “For us in this film, a silent character, as her father I The film is quite humorous today in the Thermal’s Grand the new form,” says Coussemacq. this subject with three characters Sweet Evil screens today at [Charlie Chaplin] had done so despite its dark subject mat- Hall at 8pm and tomorrow at “I cannot say that I was con- in one unique place that’s closed the Thermal’s Grand Hall at often. ter… 10am in the Espace Dorleans sciously inspired by Hitchcock in, it was a challenge to retain 5pm and tomorrow at 1pm in the I There are several sexual I wanted to use comedy – obvi- Cinema. I films, but this precious heritage attention... That’s why it was con- Espace Dorleans Cinema. I BELGIAN CINEMA
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REVIEWERS RECOMMEND FACES Anna Franklin Today promoting filmmakers with Jan Hřebejk KVIFF will mental disabilities. We also (Kawasaki’s Film New Europe (www.filmneweurope.com) be graced by have respected young Iraqi Rose) is due to the arrival of director Mohamed Al-Daradji appear today, An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes living legend (Son of Babylon), selected for as is Vladimír Micheline the Special Events section this Balko, the Director: Irena Pavlásková, Czech Republic, 2009, 114 min. Presle, veter- year. Slovakian July 4, 7:30pm, Lázně III an of almost A host of writer/directors director, who Czech director Irena Pavlásková’s film is fresh from the Moscow 200 films arrive in KV today. We have returns to Caroline Strubbe Lesław Dobrucki International Film Festival where Vilma Cibulková deservedly won the from 1937 to Caroline Strubbe (Lost KVIFF this best actress prize for her performance in this drama about growing up the present day, here with direc- Persons Area) and Jaco Van time as a guest. From the in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s. Pavlásková has been a favourite direc- tor Frédéric Sojcher for the Dormael (Mr. Nobody) here for Official Selection we have actor tor since her debut film Time of the Servants and this movie, with its world premiere of Hitler in the Focus on Belgian Film side- François Papineau (Mourning irony and sense of history, ranks among her best. Hollywood, a mock bio-doc of bar, Philip Koch (Picco), for Anna) and producer Luis her career that turns into an Johannes Naber (The Miñarro (The Mosquito Net, Sweet Evil investigation of Hollywood’s Albanian), Niv Klainer (Bena), The Strange Case of Angelica). Director: Olivier Coussemacq, France, 2009, 90 min. forgotten secrets. Another treas- Nikolaj Steen (Oldboys), and Also arriving is actress July 4, 5pm, Grand Hall ure of filmmaking history to the direct- Dorka Gryllus, female lead in keeps your eyes open for is this ing/screen- Robert Adrian Pejo’s The Catching up with the best in contemporary French cinema is one of year’s Crystal Globe winner writing duo Cameramurderer. the greatest joys of attending KVIFF. French director Olivier Karel Vachek. behind The Last but certainly not least we Coussemacq’s debut is a psychological thriller about a streetwise 15- You might see Danny Perez, Island Inside, have some important documen- year-old girl Céline who is taken in by a French middle-class couple director of the much anticipated Félix Sabroso tarists. Alberto Herskovits, the after they find her sleeping in the garden shed of their villa. Animal Collective “visual and Dunia co-director, dir. of photography, Coussemacq blurs the lines between protector and protected, offender and victim in this story, which chal- album” ODDSAC, or the inspir- Ayaso. and co-editor of Familia, and lenges our ideas of right and wrong and asks us to examine our definition of morality. ing Linda Jablonská, who Critically Lesław Dobrucki, director of The Reverse arrives today to host the acclaimed Dunia Ayaso and the chilling tale of family abuse Inventura FF Presents sidebar, Czech director Félix Sabroso Little Bride. (PLC) Director: Borys Lankosz, Poland, 2009, 101 min. July 4, 9:30pm, Small Hall Borys Lankosz’s debut The Reverse won both best Polish film of the year in Gdynia in 2009 and the top prize in the Perspectives section at Master Class with Eli Craig the recent Moscow International Film Festival. A stylish black comedy Young American filmmaker be aware of the horror genre’s film The Tao of Pong, the story of with plenty of twists and turns, Lankosz keeps us guessing up until the Eli Craig talks about his debut existence. a former ping pong prodigy’s very last frame of the film. Set in 1952 in Warsaw, the shy bookish mock-horror comedy Tucker & The characters’ perception of quest to revive former glories. Sabina dreams of falling in love with a manly hero but when a real-life macho admirer appears she is caught Dale vs. Evil in today’s Master being in a classic horror situation You can see this absurdist, yet up in a surprising intrigue when it turns out he works for the secret police. Class. Eli Craig’s debut feature warps their view of the world. oddly touching reworking of the The Temptation of St. Tony deftly reworks tired horror Though handled in a lighthearted underdog sports movie on his clichés into something new, (and very gory) manner, this is website www.elicraig.net. Director: Veiko Õunpuu, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, 2009, 114 min. unexpected and darkly funny. actually a pretty “deep” subject, July 4, 5pm, Karlovy Vary Theatre Weaving together motifs from given how absurd misunder- Eli Craig’s Master Class takes Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu’s first film since his international horror classics such as Friday the standings combined with fear place today at 2pm in the Radio festival hit Autumn Ball is a black-and-white meditation on the materi- 13th and The Texas Chainsaw and prejudice so often lead to 1 Lounge. It is free to the public. alism of modern day Estonian society and a surrealistic journey for its Massacre, Craig’s film turns the violence. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil screens hero, Tony, into a dark forest where he confronts his own definition of genre on its head in much the For those who fancy sampling as part of the Another View sec- morality. The film has a universal appeal and has already found an same way Wes Craven’s Scream Eli Craig’s earlier work online, tion on July 8, 9:30pm, in the international distributer. This is an accomplished piece of work for this top director. I did, by allowing his characters to we recommend his student thesis Thermal’s Small Hall. (PLC)
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WHAT AM I Variety is the spice of KVIFF DOING HERE?
Gillian Purves learn some truths about them- Aleš Rumpel selves and each other. Director of the Mezipatra The masterfully executed Queer Film Festival KVIFF’s Variety Critics’ Spanish feature Garbo: The Spy Choice sidebar is known for is based on the life of WWII dou- drawing our attention to highly ble agent Juan Pujol, whose story accomplished European films, is, according to director Edmon with a tendency to spotlight fea- Roch “the greatest story never tures by directors who are relative told.” Irish production Snap, newcomers to the role. The sec- which is director Carmel Winters’ tion is the result of collaboration directorial debut and will have its between Variety magazine, European Premiere today at European Film Promotion and KVIFF, uses a fractured narrative KVIFF, and this year the endeav- to explore the relationship or has been coordinated by between an estranged mother and Variety liaison Alissa Simon. “We son. Communist Poland is the set- look for films that are fresh and ting for Borys Lankosz’s The unusual,” Alissa says, “films that Reverse, which explores the may be atypical of what one theme of different forms of might expect from a particular oppression through a story of country’s production, and which multi-generational family life, have been singled out by a Variety and as a film almost defies genre reviewer as something especially classification. Romanian-German strong and festival worthy.” co-production Medal of Honor is I So, what exactly are you This year’s selection of ten a narrative set in post-Ceaucescu doing here? films covers a broad range of Romania that is spiced with dry I’m here watching films real- genres from right across Europe, humor throughout, while Czech ly. We always find a nice sur- which although very diverse in Photo: KVIFF “rural comedy” Men in Rut fea- prise or two for our festival their execution, share some com- tures the exploits of small-town Markus Goller’s quirky buddy movie Friendship! here, which screens in October. mon threads of humor (often politicians in a South Moravian It’s also good to see these films dark), friendship (often unlikely), raise the funds for flights all the day. Their interest in each other threads of touching drama and village. Swiss romantic comedy with a Czech audience to see and a healthy appreciation for the way to the West Coast, the duo piqued by shared loves of cats, outrageous comedy. Director Will You Marry Us also shines how they react. This is also one unconventional, with frequent jet to New York and set out hitch- chocolate and the works of Webb is keen to ensure that a spotlight on small-town affairs of the best places for network- nods towards some of the less hiking to their destination with Tolstoy, the individuals in this “heart” remains the mainstay in when a bureaucrat is asked to per- ing and keeping in touch with savory twists in the continent’s just 55 bucks, three pairs of trio each face their own gentle his body of work. “I hope my form the wedding ceremony of what’s happening in world cine- 20th century history. briefs, socks, soap and their far revolutions of the soul. films will have a heart no matter the lost love of her youth. ma. And it’s nice to not only see Markus Goller’s offering from perfect English. The theme Bruce Webb’s The Be All and what the subject matter,” he says. The involvement of European queer films, which is what I do Friendship! manages to combine of friendship also runs through End All is another film that “I don’t want to be known for Film Promotion in this section at other festivals. sometimes-nostalgic backwards The Hedgehog, first-time feature focuses on friendship, this time one sort of film or genre but for should not be underestimated, as I Does KVIFF cooperate glances towards communist East director Mona Achache’s charm- against the backdrop of working- capturing human emotion and it means filmmakers not only get with or help your fest in any Germany with comedy and ing interpretation of Muriel class Liverpool. 15-year-old making people laugh and cry.” to present their films but are also way? hijinks as it follows childhood Barbery’s popular novel. Robbie is suffering from a fatal Miss Kicki is a Swedish- given opportunities to meet dis- Well, it’s very nice to be invit- buddies Veit and Tom on a mad- Unlikely bonds of friendship condition and his last wish is to Taiwanese co-production that its tributers and other filmmakers ed every year. That really helps. cap road trip across the United form in a French apartment block lose his virginity before he dies – director Håkon Liu describes as while they are here at KVIFF. When our event was much States. The year is 1989, the between a middle-aged concierge no mean feat for a lad who’s so a “funny and heartbreaking film “We constantly hear from film- smaller, being here helped us get Berlin Wall has just come down, who keeps her intellectual tastes ill he’s confined to his hospital about a woman and her son seek- makers who were included in in contact with the international and with nothing better to do, a secret, a cultured and wealthy bed. His best mate Ziggy is ing what they are longing for.” past sections about how much film community and to have Tom decides to accompany Veit Japanese gentleman, and a preco- drafted in to assist in the quest, We follow Kicki and her being included meant to them contact with the film industry as he realizes his dream of travel- cious 11-year-old who intends to taking us along for the ride, in estranged teenage son Viktor on and their career,” says Alissa and filmmakers. (COC) ing to San Francisco. Unable to commit suicide on her 12th birth- a tale that is deftly woven from a trip to Taiwan, where they Simon. I
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Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: Milan Malíček Thelma Schoonmaker giving a Master Class at KVIFF. Kids revel in the very un-KVIFF-like sunshine. KVIFF president Jiří Bartoška and ČEZ CEO Martin Roman.