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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

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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. Adam in particular. “We shown in Karlovy Vary in from Haneke’s Th e Piano most jeopardizing the whole today, like the rise of far- were casting for the role 2017 to celebrate 30 years of Teacher. thing with one perfectly -right paramilitary groups Merry Christmas! of Adam for more than six the European Film Academy, Th e similarities are stri- administered blow. Conti- among young people, there Like a significant num- months,” Škop explains. “It German fi lmmaker Jan-Ole king, but Harfouch’s Lara nuing the vicious circle of is a tendency to look al- ber of Slovaks, Milan was crucial for me to fi nd Gerster once again takes is not a musician – she is people bringing each other most exclusively at the “big supports his family by the right person. When actor Tom Schilling along a mother of a son, Viktor, down, otherwise known as picture.” working abroad. The film I met František Beleš, it was for the ride. having given up her passi- a family. • Marko Škop’s Let Th ere begins with him coming kind of a miracle.” • Th is time, however, he is on a long time ago aft er Be Light goes behind and home for Christmas to gently urging him to play a sniggering remark proved Lara premieres tonight at 5 pm in beyond the journalistic find the holiday cheer Let There Be Light premieres second fi ddle to Corinna too much to handle for this Grand Hall. context by bringing viewers quickly dampened by tonight at 8 pm in Grand Hall.

Carmen Grey Marta Bałaga Three picks for today Freelance Film Critic On the town Festival Daily Writer

In 1930s Prague, a cremator obsessively goes about his work as the Nazi regime rises. This black-humored, surreal vision Foto: Jan Handrejch Foto: of a man losing his marbles, a Czechoslo- vak comedy-horror classic, is today all too relevant.

The Cremator

Director: Juraj Herz Czechoslovakia 1968, 96 min June 30 at 10 am, Národní dům Cinema

Before After

Egyptian auteur Youssef Chahine’s blend There is no such thing as natural beauty of melodrama, neo-realism and noir stars screen icon Hind Rostom - dubbed the “Marilyn Monroe of the East” - in its Dermacol Thermal ground fl oor schedule ahead as every single strand of hair unique exploration of societal power in the neighbourhood is already being curled abuses. Duration: around 45 min at the exact same spot. You will learn a lot of things, like that it doesn’t take two seconds to Cairo Station Price: FREE! put on mascara, you really should use some concealer and holy-shit-I-have-been-doin- Director: Youssef Chahine g-it-all-wrong. Luckily, Festival Daily was Egypt 1958, 73 min We don’t have time to leave the newsroom, in the gentle hands of Jana Vítová, so gentle June 30 at 11.30 am, Grand Hall let alone the Th ermal, but it turns out you in fact I started dozing off already aft er the can get all dolled up by simply going down- primer, listening to Pulp Fiction’s “Surf Rider” stairs – right into the soothing pink Der- and the sound of skilled fi ngertips massaging macol space, where sweet girls in tutus will the tip of my nose. If you see me still sleeping lead you right onto the lip-shaped sofa with there the next morning, all wrinkled clothes lip-shaped cushions, only to then brutally and impeccable makeup, just let it be. As French New Wave free spirit Agnès assess the state of your eyebrows. Dolly Parton once said, there is no such thing Varda died this year - and this is her final But there is a lot to recommend - but do as natural beauty. • film. With charm and whimsical digres- sions, she reflects on her approach to cinema as activism, and as an empathe- tic connector.

Varda by Agnès KviffefeTweet of the day Cynthia @cynthj Director: Agnès Varda France 2019, 115 min They really ought to ask you if you’re afraid of heights June 30 at 9am, Drahomíra Cinema before they seat you in Row 1 in the gallery at KV Divadlo. #sobeautiful #soscary #KVIFF 2 festival daily june 30, 2019 Czeching in

Th e script is inspired by hoped, for both sides. Th e signifi cance of 1950s politics a true story Dušek heard old-school actors didn’t quite in Eastern Europe playing on the news back in 2008 understand the duo’s eccen- out in the background. in which an old Czech tric way of directing and the man was enthusiastically directors got annoyed that Politics aside describing how he and his the performers were con- “For us, the existential Foto: Archive of O. Provazník O. of Archive Foto: friend decided to kill the stantly complaining. aspect of the story was much prosecutor who sent them to “A ft er a while, they sort more important than the po- jail as political prisoners in of formed a pact against us litical angle,” says Provazník. communist Czechoslovakia and we got the feeling they But since both directors have in the 1950s. really became a couple of old a background in journalism, “We liked that these guys guys trying to kill somebo- anchoring the story arc in took this long-gone history dy,” says Provazník, “and it a real, signifi cant news event so personally, as if it’s still almost seemed like we were came naturally. relevant, meanwhile the the target.” “Originally, when we fi l- rest of the world has moved Th e fact that two di- med Hermitage together, we on. Eventually it’s become rectors – not just one – were found this devout communist this thing that only the two in charge didn’t help. Dušek during one scene who had of them cared about,” says thinks their age disparities this brutality and disdain Dušek. “Th e stories old folks probably played into it. “If against everything else,” says Just one last adventure before kicking the bucket. sometimes carry in their I went on a trip with my Provazník. “And we were heads are so interesting. We grandpa, he would con- surprised there are still peop- wanted to see how intensive- stantly be bitching about le in this country who haven’t ly they feel them even if where I’m going and when gone through any kind of nobody else is interested in I should use a turn signal, self-refl ection.” Last men sitting them anymore.” too.” Provazník says they cou- Th is dynamic formed ldn’t forget him. “His name Directing grouches a unique chemistry that was Mráz (Freeze) and we Old-Timers takes “grumpy old men” to Casting the brilliant Jiří translates into the fi lm and decided to name the pro- Schmitzer and Ladimír makes it so relatable even for secutor in Old-Timers aft er a whole new level Mrkvička as the two cantan- those not familiar with the him.” • kerous friends who decide to go on a revenge road trip by Iva Roze proved to work better than they could have imagined. In today’s youth-obsessed, gender conscious times, it’s not exactly sexy to Almost too well, actually. “Th ey really took their pitch an idea for shooting a movie about two old white guys. To be directed roles to heart,” says Pro- Foto: Archive of O. Provazník O. of Archive Foto: by two younger ones, no less. Yet, Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek – vazník. “Aft er a while, we couldn’t even tell when they who co-directed the documentary A Town Called Hermitage in 2007 – did were and weren’t in cha- just that. Th eir new feature fi lm, Old-Timers, became part adventure road racter anymore.” Shooting a fi lm about – and starring – trip, part hilariously absurd portrait of the vicissitudes of old age. It will elderly irritable people was premiere today in the KVIFF Offi cial Selection - Out of Competition section. more challenging than he The directors try to outgrump the main character.

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Let There Be some Goddamn Light! Grumps in fi lm by Marta Bałaga fi nally out to get the man who 4. Passed by Censor and Mike Stein tormented them. That is, once they manage to get up all these Shown in the EOTW section, it has “Good morning, dickhead.” pesky stairs. a newbie prison censor becoming “Hello, moron.” So went the involved in one inmate’s life. But usual daily greetings in Donald 2. The Dead Don’t Die the biggest struggles awaits him Petrie’s Grumpy Old Men, swiftly at home thanks to disapproving followed by “I have laid more Bill Murray has been born crabby, mum, one that wants to be intro- pipe in this town than Wabasha but luckily he hasn’t yet learnt to duced to potential girlfriends and Plumbing” and “when I had an control it. In Jim Jarmusch zombie doesn’t like it when he goes out ulcer, I was farting razor blades.” apocalypse, he is trying to help at night. Who said ladies can’t by But we are glad to report it’s not the good people of Centerville grumpy as well?! just about Lemmon & Matthau, as as Chief Cliff Robertson. Well, grumpiness doesn’t discriminate. except for farmer Miller. “Fuck 5. Spider-Man: At least not at KVIFF. Here is our farmer Miller.” Indeed. Far From Home list of the grouchiest characters in this year’s fi lms: 3. Let There be Light With his cigar, eye-patch and gruff , no-nonsense bossiness Nick Fury 1. Old-Timers Family visits have never been is not only an offi cial member of so joyless due to the grumpy S.H.I.E.L.D. but of the grumpy old Now these local two old gee- grandfather character in Marko man club. And though you might zers, played by Jiří Schmitzer Škop’s fi lm, played by Ľubomír not want to admit it, you’re looking and Ladislav Mrkvička and so Paulovič, who can’t seem to forward to his grumpiness clash- bad-tempered they even refer to say two words without insult- ing with Peter Parker’s over-the- a dog as “old cunt”, have a good ing a loved one. In his defense, top earnestness in KVIFF’s region- reason to be annoyed: political he’s there for his family when it al pre-premiere of Spider-Man: Far prisoners in their youth, they are counts, but sheez, lighten up. from Home. • 3 june 30, 2019 festival daily Documentaries Foto: KVIFF Foto:

The Fading Village: Just one story of a place that just won’t quit.

a remote Russian industrial observational chronicle by oft en through inner space, city where factories’ jagged an unlikely fi lmmaker - one roll off the screen in Marc edges seem to threaten the who began lensing his fami- Schmidt’s Netherlands doc very idea of questioning ly and the mean streets of In the Arms of Morpheus, orthodoxy. Washington DC at age nine which considers where we China rising Another subject seeming- in 1999. go when we go to sleep - ly caught in the spell of Th is year’s Czech doc and what may be hidden crumbling majesty is the entry, Over the Hills by Mar- along the blurry borderline. Haunting settings and faraway lands are two aging Projectionist Valentin, tin Mareček, is also deeply Spoon, meanwhile, a Lat- whose story is captured by connected to landscape - in vian-Norwegian-Lithuani- powerful currents in KVIFF’s documentary Yuriy Shylov in the Ukrai- this case, the long road an doc by the artist Laila nian-Polish entry this year. between home in Central Pakalniņa, manages to just Crystal Globe race this year Atmosphere and setting are Europe and the confoun- about summon its own also lead characters in Ice- ding land of Russia, which world as it ironically ex- land doc Th e Last Autumn, may just hold the secret to plores, via silent fi lm, the by Will Tizard Liu Feifang’s Th e Fading with protagonists stuck in directed by Yrsa Roca Fann- the inexplicable breakup of hidden meanings in the Village, meanwhile, reverses lives “so diffi cult that you berg, a compelling journey a boy’s parents. lowliest of disposable, mass- Th e docu section sees an the clan burden, focusing on seek something else - but home - on the remote fringe More personal journeys, -produced utensils. • unprecedented event this the refusal of a man to leave you don’t know what you’re of a remote island nation. year: Two of the ten fi lms in his increasingly empty vill- looking for.” contention are from China. age as others have done out Mean streets Confucian Dream by Mijie of loyalty to his family and Remote places Italian doc Up to Down by KVIFF Foto: Li is a timely and thoughtful local traditions. Th e arresting images of Nazareno Manuel Nicoletti study of parents who have KVIFF docu section pro- a dilapidated Chinese hamlet unfolds in Naples, “home of the courage to resist intense grammer Martin Horyna share a kind of synchronicity the unbowed, of madmen social pressure in China says the two fi lms refl ect with the settings of three and paupers,” as KVIFF pro- to push children hard and a kind of renaissance, with other fi lms from a world grammers describe this tour shape them into productive work from the country po- away: of the troubled city’s ragged workers. Instead, the mo- pulating more top Western Estonian-Latvian doc edges and the marginal folk ther of little Chen believes festival slots than it has in Immortal, directed by Ksenia who occupy it. US doc 17 deeply in the values of moral years. Both Chinese fi lms, Okhapkina, is a lyrical visual Blocks by Davy Rothbart development found in the though in opposite settings, tableau capturing the eff ects off ers a counterpoint in teachings of Confucius. are about escape, he adds, of ideological mindsets in the form of a long-form There isn’t much time for dreaming in Confucian Dream. Faces Industry events

reček (Over the Hills), Yuriy Shy- lov (Projectionist), and Yrsa Roca Fannberg (The Last Autumn). Inside intel KVIFF’s rich program for fi lm professionals kicks off today

How are streaming services market. Among the buys he over- The fourth guest is a Canadian Frederico Bondi changing the fi lm industry’s saw are the Oscar-winning Son producer and specialist on Tim Mielants business models in major ways? of Saul, Whiplash, Toni Erdmann creative fi nancing, Linda Beath, Denis Côté (Ghost Town Antho- Is public funding, essential for and Searching for Sugar Man. who founded her company With the 54th KVIFF in full swing logy) and Nora Fingscheidt non-English-language fi lm, set Another guest on the panel Ideal Filmworks Italia in Rome in the main competition will be (System Crasher). In the Special to drop as is much of the funding is Icelandic actor and director 1991 concentrating on fi nancing represented by the arrival of Frederikke Aspöck Events section, director and in culture thanks to the current Benedikt Erlingsson whose and coproduction of ambitious Belgian director Tim Mielants producer Helena Třeštíková political climate? 2013 fi lm debut Of Horses and feature fi lms as well as televisi- to introduce his fi lm Patrick while Director Frederico Bondi arrives along with director and fi lm editor Men won best fi lm in the new on movies and shows. German actress Corinna Har- to screen his fi lm Dafne together Jakub Hejna come to present K.V.I.Q. Talks directors competition at San “The K.V.I.Q. Talks event fouch will introduce the fi lm Lara. with actress Carolina Raspanti their fi lm Forman vs. Forman, These and other pressing topics Sebastián and received a host is organized in cooperation in the Another Views section. which had its premiere at the will be discussed today at 6 pm of other awards. His Woman at with Creative Europe Desk The East of the West section Directors Frederikke Aspöck Cannes fi lm festival. EH at the Hotel Pupp at a talk hos- War dominated the International CZ – MEDIA program and LUX welcomes director Boris Ako- (Out of Tune) and Lucía Garibaldi ted by British journalist Michael Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2018 Film Prize,” says Hugo Rosák, pov to present his fi lm The Bull in (The Sharks) will also represent Gubbins featuring experts from and received the European head of KVIFF’s Industry De- the section together with actor this section. diff erent industry fi elds. Among Parliament’s LUX Prize for best partment, “and I am happy that Yuri Borisov as well as director them is executive Dylan Leiner, movie in 2018. such a stellar panel accepted Pavol Pekarčík (Silent days) and The Horizons section welco- vice president of Sony Pictures The German member of our invitation. I believe it will give actress Eliška Křenková, coming mes Icelandic director Hlynur Classics (SPC), responsible European Parliament for the us a good overview of what is to represent A Certain Kind of Pálmason and actor Ingvar for acquisition and production, Green Party Helga Trüpel will happening in the industry world. Silence. Sigurðsson (A White, White Day), who during his twenty-fi ve years no doubt have something to With our special guests we will director Bonifácio Angius and at the company has become a say to that. She has also long address the best ways to create The Documentary Films competi- actor Antonio Lorenzo Angius major fi gure connecting Europe- been involved in the issues of a sustainable life in the current tion greets directors Martin Ma- (Wherever You Are), and directors Nora Fingscheidt an auteur cinema and the US public fi nance and copyright. fi lm climate and industry.” • 4