sunday 30. 6. 2019 03 free festival kviff’s main media partner Inside Official Selection: Lara and Let There Be Light 02 daily Angry old men (and one woman) 03 All a bout this year’s documentaries 04 special edition of Právo Foto: Petr Horník Petr Foto: The newest recipient of a Crystal Globe, this Oscar winner and producer is now forging her own way. Taking chances Looking back at a career that - apart from her Oscar-winning turn in Still Alice or best actress win in Cannes for Maps to the Stars - al- ways included more divisive fare, She’s the one Moore remains pragmatic about her choices. “At the beginning of your career you don’t care what The star needs her space. Give her some space! you do. You just want to have a job. My fi rst paid job was on a soap opera I got to work every In Karlovy Vary to pick up her Crystal Globe for contribution to world cinema, Maude Lebowsk…I mean Julianne day and support myself as an actor. There is a difference between the Moore met with the journalists to discuss her role in the remake of Susanne Bier’s Aft er the Wedding. Directed by her movie business and the roles you husband Bart Freundlich, the drama marks their fourth collaboration since his 1997 Th e Myth of Fingerprints, also want to play, and it’s important not to confuse the two.” shown at the fest. “This is a business and it’s not about fi nding great roles for actors. by Marta Bałaga approached to make an American new muscles. Not that it comes Her collaborations with It’s about fi nding movies that will adaptation. I was watching Rolf as a surprise given her past de- Freundlich do come at a price, resonate economically. I always Originally starring Mads Mikkel- and I went: ‘Wow, that guy is inte- cisions to play, say, a woman Moore confesses. “Somebody de- felt it’s my responsibility to seek sen and Rolf Lassgård, Aft er the resting.’ Th ere was something exp- making art “commended as cided we should all share a room. them out. Now for the fi rst time Wedding sees Michelle Williams losive about him that I thought being strongly vaginal” or Sarah Bart, me and our 16-year-old dau- I am starting to develop material and Moore taking over the roles of was really fantastic. When we Palin. ghter who was a P.A. on the fi lm. for myself. As you get more ex- an idealist trying to keep an orpha- fi nished, I just looked at him, “I love the idea that this person Which was horrible” – she recalls, perience you don’t want to repeat nage in Calcutta afl oat and a my- saying: ‘Well, I would play that has so deliberately built her life, laughing. “When I am working on yourself, although I don’t think sterious sponsor who just might part,’” she tells Festival Daily. step by step by step. Every choice a movie, particularly an indepen- I have ever gotten to a place where make her wishes come true – that “Th at’s sort of how it is - you that she made was completely con- dent movie, you only have few I felt I was doing the same thing. is, if she fi rst fl ies to New York to see the script and think: “Oh, scious: She believed in business, in minutes to be by yourself. But I say it to my children all the time: meet. But even before the decision that’s the one!” Th ey all have unu- her family and her marriage. She I was sharing my room not only ‘You have to take responsibility to swap the genders of both prota- sual stories but that was the one has done everything to protect it with the director but also our teen- for your choices.’ Your career do- gonists, Moore was already attrac- I felt compelled by.” until that one moment, that one age daughter, going: ‘Oh my God, esn’t just happen to you.” • ted to the role originally played by thing she couldn’t control. And I was standing up all day, I am Lassgård. Family business was forced to enlist the help of sooo tired.’ Next time, I will ask Aft er the Wedding will screen again “We were watching the movie Th e role of media mogul Th e- someone she never wanted to en- for some extra space. Just a little on July 1 at 10 pm in Pupp Cine- together when Bart was fi rst resa allowed Moore to fl ex some counter.” bit, right by the bathroom.” ma. Volia Chajkouskaya See you there Producer at Volia Films Replay It’s going to be my fi fth time in Karlo- I am also looking forward to parties, vy Vary, which is a nice anniversary. where I want to see all the amazing Shooting for the stars That’s where we pitched The Road Movie people from the industry, but my plan is in 2016, a crazy dashboard cam docu- to give it a try and enjoy mineral waters The KVIFF community is dearly missing The soft-spoken Fikejz worked at Horník Petr Foto: mentary, so I consider it my lucky place. from the springs. Festival lifestyle is not Miloš Fikejz this year. The arresting photo- KVIFF from 1996 as a photographer, This year I will present Yoyogi Haiku by very healthy so I think some water might graphic portraits of the renowned authority was a specialized editor and writer Max Golomidov as part of the Eurimages help. • MB on Czech, Slovak and world cinema adorn covering fi lms and fi lmmakers and a Lab Project Award – come to see all the a wall on the Thermal fi rst fl oor, where consultant for the National Film Archive. projects at 11am at Cinema Čas on July 2. Parasite screens today at 7 pm [Národní tribute was paid by fest directors yester- He also helped edit Eva Zaoralová’s The I will try to see A White, White Day from dům Cinema], July 5 at 11 am [Grand day following Fikejz’ death in January. The Story of a Festival (2015). His images Iceland, Parasite, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants Hall], and July 6 at 9.30 pm [Karlovy columnist, librarian, encyclopedist and of a boyish Robert De Niro from 1990, by the amazing Jukka-Pekka Valkeappää Vary Municipal Theatre]. Dogs Don’t photographer may have lost his battle with a kittenish Kiera Knightley from 2002, and amazing Icelandic fi lmmaker Ingvar Wear Pants screens at July 1 at 9 am leukemia at age 59 but his luminous pictu- a brooding Věra Chytilová from 1998 Sigurdsson and Woman at War’s Bene- [Drahomíra Cinema] and July 5 at res, spanning decades of KVIFF magic and a dapper Bernardo Bertolucci from dikt Erlingsson who will also give a talk. 10:30 pm [Husovka Theatre]. moments, are gifts we’ll be keeping. 1988 are among dozens of greats. WT When we were young… june 30, 2019 festival daily Official selection Official selection woman of “insane” ambi- his withdrawn teenage tion. And a successful one son, Adam, his worried, Foto: KVIFF Foto: too, as she is introduced KVIFF Foto: overwhelmed wife Zuzka preparing for a sold-out and the news that one of concert that’s bound to seal Adam’s friends has commi- the impressive career she has tted suicide. been preparing her son for, It’s clear that the taking place on the evening boy’s death has something of her 60th birthday. But Vik- to do with the paramilitary tor doesn’t want her there group he and Adam have or anywhere near for that been involved with, and matter. while the explanations and And he might just have analysis given for the rise of a point. the ῾Guard’ typically focuses on political factors, for Škop Modern family Making Slovakia great again, one family at a time. there are some more funda- While the story of ma- mental issues at work: ternal dysfunction might “At the core of the fi lm is Lara is a pleasantly icy study of maternal dysfunction. ring familiar, there is no a family struggle because of over-the-top, Mommie No place like home the missing father,” he says, Dearest-like drama in Gers- “It is very hard for ter’s latest and certainly “no children when there is Mommie Dearest wire hangers.” Instead, he In Let There Be Light, nationalism a tough and cold father but prefers the events to unfold it’s maybe an even more piano, gently, as Lara doesn’t and family tensions rise dangerous situation when Jan-Ole Gerster comes back to really need to raise her voice a parent isn’t present. Chil- to hit right where it hurts. dren are searching for iden- Karlovy Vary with Lara She can scorn a child she by Michael Stein deeply into the lives of tity and in these situations just met (“No edge, no am- a small town in Slovakia can more easily be infl u- bition. Your poor parents,” When western journalists and one family in parti- enced by ideologies.” by Marta Bałaga Harfouch, all reddish mane goes her lovely summary of write about the many cular that is at the heart Th e fi lm showcases some and an unnaturally poised his capabilities) or give out troubling social and po- of a tragedy connected to strong lead performances, Following his award-win- exterior, trying her best to tickets to her son’s gig to litical phenomena taking just such a youth organi- that of František Beleš as ning debut feature Oh Boy, out-frost Isabelle Huppert complete strangers, aft er al- place in Central Europe zation.