Where Science and the Soul Converge

4/7 2014 SPECIAL EDITION OF FREE KVIFF’s MAIN MEDIA PARTNER

INSIDE Official Selection films: the elites compete English Section, page 2

Independents in the spotlight English Section, page 3

Festival map English Section, page 4

Today’s and tomorrow’s programs Czech Section, pages 5-8

Photo: Jan Handrejch Mike Cahill is keeping an eye out for the sublime and the profound. WHERE SCIENCE AND THE SOUL CONVERGE MIKE CAHILL ON FINDING TRANSCENDENCE IN FILM Veronika Bednářová where they disagree, where they can’t are barely touching, which we may not So which movie did it for you? director, everybody’s just trying to make even reach one another. Stories in that have full access to, but we can sense it, [Three Colors:]Red, Basquiat, Sex, a great story well told. That’s great, but American director Mike Cahill is to- place are very interesting. And the eyes just slightly – the metaphysical side, be- Lies, and Videotape, Nostalghia –Ilove they’re not chasing something sublime, day presenting I Origins starring Michael are the window to the soul. It’s an old yond physics. And, in my life, that intu- Tarkovsky, The Double Life of Veronique, profound, and transcendent. Pitt. Fresh from a successful bow at cliché that’s lasted since the time of itively feels right, and yet it’s so hard to there are a lot more – 2001: A Space Sundance, this daring, genre-defying Seneca and Shakespeare. articulate. It’s one of the most challeng- Odyssey. I Origins will also screen tomorrow movie, which explores a scientist’s ob- Do you have a sequel in mind? ing things for an artist to convey. And he You’ve made two movies so far based at 1pm in the Espace Dorleans Cinema session with the uniqueness of the human Yes, a second project...the very end of did it incredibly beautifully and poetical- on your own scripts. Could you see and on July 10 at 9am in the Thermal eye, is having its international premiere the movie suggests a sequel and I’ve al- ly without being too spoon-fed... he was yourself directing someone else’s Grand Hall. z tonight as the opening film at KVIFF. ready written it. a big influence on me. screenplay some day? And what is it about? Are there any other filmmakers A movie is a device to transmit very How did you come up with the idea It takes place in the future. The charac- whom you find equally inspiring? particular emotions. That’s all it is. I have NOTICE behind the movie, which looks at the ters are the same. It’s many years from I’m a huge Kubrick fan. I think he had felt something, and I want you to feel it. notion of a person’s eyes being a gate- now – about 15 years into the future. And an incredibly high IQ and a lot of film- How do I do that? We create a vessel Today’s double screening of The way to understanding DNA, genetics, the discoveries that [biologist Ian Gray] making is about understanding the macro called a movie or art in general. That’s Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: and even reincarnation? has made have started to permeate socie- and the micro simultaneously and using what art does -- music, painting, dance. Him and The Disappearance of That’s a very nice question. From a lot ty. And so when a baby is born, we scan the craft for better story-telling. And he It’s transmitted to an audience – to anoth- Eleanor Rigby: Her in the Karlovy can- of different influences, I think. I’m very its eyes to see who it was before. And we was a master. I like to think of it like this: er person. And the more rare that feeling Vary Theater at 6:30pm has been celled interested in science. I’m very interested can know that. And some people are hap- There’s these things called stories well is, the better the art, the better the experi- . These films will now be in the fact that everybody’s eye is unique, py to hear who they were in the past, and told. There’s good movies that are really ence. And when you feel a profound ex- screened separately later in the festi- like a fingerprint. Eyes are obviously some are not very happy – finding out well made, and then there’s the sublime, perience, a profound observation about val. The Disappearance of Eleanor much more beautiful than fingerprints. who they were. profound and transcendent. You don’t just life – or at least when I do – I want to bot- Rigby: Him screens on July 10 (10pm, You can see them better... You’ve talked a lot about Krzysztof come out of the theater and say “Oh, that tle it up into a film. So the whole creation Pupp Cinema) and July 12 (7pm, You can definitely see them better! And Kieślowski. What’s so fascinating was a great story, really well told.” You of the film is to transmit that. And to work Thermal Congress Hall). The they’re beautiful. They’re like an artwork about him for you? are changed. And so a filmmaker who is on someone else’s writing, you kind of Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her that’s unique to you. And I’m also inter- Well, he so brilliantly and efficiently able to do that can touch on something have to understand at least what they’re will be shown on July 11 (10:30pm, ested in the place where science and spir- uses the medium of film to suggest that sublime, something that changes an audi- after in terms of that. But sometimes Thermal Grand Hall) and July 12 ituality converge – where they overlap, there’s another dimension of life that we ence forever, that’s one in a billion. when it goes from one writer to another (9:30pm, KV Theater) SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER

DIRECTOR, MARTIN DUŠEK INTO THE CLOUDS QUICK TIPS FOR KVIFF NEWBIES WE GAZE If this is your first time to the fest and end of the carpet, you’ll find the press on the building’s opposite side. If I were in KV today, I’d spend the after- Leviathan screens today at 3:30pm in the you haven’t yet gotten a grizzled KV- conference hall, where most guests Producer-distributor types and other noon in the Čas Cinema. The film Čas Cinema, on July 9 (2pm, Thermal Grand IFF veteran to show you the ropes, here and other luminaries hold court with the professionals should make sure to visit Leviathan intrigues me. I’ve always liked Hall), and July 12 (6:30pm, KV Theater). are a few quick pointers to get you scribes. Accredited journalists can also the adjacent film industry office (open the word yet I still don’t know what Timbuktu screens in the Čas today at 6:30pm started. First off, get yourself to the make use of the press center on the daily from 10am to 8pm). a Leviathan is, what it looks like, or what it and on July 9 (9am, Thermal Grand Hall). Thermal hotel (aka KVIFF central). first floor. It offers workspaces with If you’re not here in an official ca- feeds on. In this instance, it’s a film by the Dušek’s Into the Clouds We Gaze screens in There’s no real need for directions as computers, Wi-Fi, and tickets desk for pacity and just want to watch movies, excellent Russian director Andrey the Čas Cinema on July 8 (3:30pm) and on this huge complex of geometric con- hard-pressed hacks. The stand-up bar we’d strongly recommend buying Zvyagintsev which competed at Cannes. July 9 (5pm, Drahomíra Cinema). z crete by the river is impossible to miss. just opposite is a popular place to make a festival pass, which entitles you to It’s about a family in danger of losing their (It’s very much an example of what the new acquaintances, but there’s also an one free ticket for three different home to speculators. The film offers a de- future used to look like way back in the official meeting point for properly ac- screenings each day, among other pressing depiction of modern Russia and its communist 1970s.) credited guests on the first-floor terrace perks. (COC) supremely powerful potentates. Functionalist by design, functional I’d like to stay in the Čas for Timbuktu. by nature, the Thermal not only houses FESTIVAL PASS PRICES The film is about another unfortunate fami- six cinemas (which is kind of handy for ly, this time one threatened by Islamic fun- a film festival), it’s also the main hub of 1 day 3 days 5 days Entire Festival damentalists and their cruel laws. I’m very fest activity. The accreditation office Festival Pass 200 CZK 500 CZK 700 CZK 1000 CZK interested in the clash of individual destinies is on the ground floor right beside the and historical circumstances. Both these red carpet, so KVIFF guests should go Discount Pass 150 CZK 350 CZK 450 CZK 700 CZK films are artistic representations of conflicts there first to get their vital lanyards and *A discount pass may be bought by students, senior citizens (over 65) and those with that are urgent and current. (COC) other accoutrements. At the opposite physical disabilities (appropriate documentation must be presented upon purchase). strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Friday, July 4, 2014 DIVERSE, INTERESTING, A DOSE OF HUMOR OFFICIAL SELECTION RACE IS AN ELITE COMPETITION

Will Tizard in Moravia, Fair Play) or Kazakhstan (Adventure) as from Although nearly 200 films are the West. screening at the 49th edition of "This year we offer a very di- KVIFF, the main attraction at verse selection of the competing any such event is the Official films with the emphasis on the Selection race – which is why territories KVIFF is known for you see these words, surrounded championing," Och explains, by laurels and with the name of "but with incredibly interesting a prestigious film festival just be- titles from other parts of the low them, on every poster for world as well. And there is a sig- a movie that achieves such an nificant dose of humor!" honor. Indeed, some Official Just to be in the running for Selection films quickly shoot a Crystal Globe is quite an down the myth that festival films achievement, considering the must be long, artistic, grueling hundreds of films submitted to and difficult to watch. The ani- the festival programmers – and it mated Rocks in My Pockets, takes the whole Program along with Welkome Home, Department staff the better part French-German Patchwork of a year to go through them and Family, Belgian-Canadian All decide on the ones that merit in- Yours and Hungary's Free Fall clusion in this competition. all employ sly humor and show Only one can win the best film off a knack for provoking audi- prize, obviously, but KVIFF ences with laughs in places they artistic director Karel Och says won't be expecting them. that in many ways everything in But with the wide emotional the Official Selection has already range represented, Official won. "It's a love affair with every Selection directors don't shy single film in the main competi- from embracing life's dark side tion," he explains. either, as Mexico's La tirisia and This year 12 films, represent- Icelandic-French-Danish Paris ing 15 countries, will be able to Photo: KVIFF of the North show us. place Karlovy Vary's name on Kazakh director Nariman Turebayev’s Dostoyevsky-inspired Adventure So this year’s prize winner their publicity materials, They've could be a fresh emerging direc- been discovered through exhaus- and producers how much we tion thrilling, perhaps, but quite This year's U.S. competition anamorphic 16mm – are no acci- tor such as the latter film's tive research and by having KV- care for their film. It is an in- unpredictable. film, Low Down, based on the dent; director Jeff Preiss was the Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson – IFF representatives travel around tensely personal business." At KVIFF, by contrast, audi- memoir of A.J. Albany, is this cinematographer of the award- who was tagged by Variety and the world scouting talent. Veteran filmmakers, some of ences and juries are often able to kind of mature work, with mov- winning Bruce Weber documen- European Film Promotion as one The selection process is ex- whom are true masters, appreci- absorb lush cinematography, pol- ing performances by Glenn tary Let's Get Lost, which chron- of ten directors to watch in haustive, Och says. "It gets easy, ate the Crystal Globe competi- ished writing, and big-screen tal- Close, John Hawkes, and icled both the genius and the 2012 – or it could be a more es- complicated, passionate, stormy tion section at KVIFF because it ent in the entries. Many Official a young but experienced Elle venality of legendary trumpeter tablished filmmaker for whom between the first time we watch does not discriminate against Selection directors have devel- Fanning, who plays the author and crooner Chet Baker in 1988. the Crystal Globe is more of the film and the moment we in- those with experience, unlike oped distinctive styles and during her adolescence as the But audiences are just as like- a career augmentation than a big troduce the delegation at the pre- many festivals that focus on dis- tones – and many times, those adoring daughter of heroin-ad- ly to see sophisticated work from break. But either way, the films miere screening in the impres- covering new and fresh talent. who screen in west Bohemia dicted jazz piano maestro Joe Russia (Welkome Home), Latvia in the running at KVIFF's main sive Thermal’s Grand Hall. The These galas will often consider have fond memories of having Albany. (Rocks in My Pockets), Georgia event represent 12 compelling crucial aspect of the whole affair only the first or second film of found appreciative audiences The film's spare, precise and (Corn Island), the Czech visions for all that arthouse film for us is to show the filmmakers a director, making the competi- here before. atmospheric images – shot on Republic or Slovakia (Nowhere can be in 2014. z MY KV FACES

David Lambert Jeff Preiss Mel Gibson Photo: KVIFF Agnes Havas spreading the buzz about new bine the creative energies of our Hungarian film? region. General Manager, This is wonderful for Hungary, What films from your terri- Hungarian National Film Fund I am very proud of it. Last year, tory are hottest currently? What will we see of the The Notebook directed by János Hungary has recently co-pro- newest wave of Hungarian fea- Szász, won the Crystal Globe and duced a zany family tale with tures at KVIFF? was shortlisted for the best for- Poland, Mom and Other Loonies Benedikt Erlingsson Shira Geffen Rob Brown I am glad to be back in eign language film Oscar at the in the Family by Ibolya Fekete Karlovy Vary. Hungary is here end of the year. Hungarian film- (Karlovy Vary best director award Watch for filmmakers already Petri, is hosting a retrospective of Actor Michael Pitt will pre- with three feature films and makers are regulars in this gem of winner for Chico in 2001), and in town for the festival; David one of the most significant postwar mier I Origins with co-star Astrid a short film. Free Fall by György a city. Szabolcs Hajdu’s next film, Lambert is premiering All Yours, Italian filmmakers. Bergès-Frisbey and director Pálfi will premiere in the Official What other film biz events Mirage starring Isaach de Jeff Preiss, Low Down, and from Lookout for Czech singer and Mike Cahill. Selection competition, Afterlife are important for you while Bankolé – a regular in Jim the Horizons secton, Yann actor, Václav Neckář, best known For the Forum of Independents by Virág Zomborácz opens the here? Jarmusch films – is a co-produc- Demange with ˇ71. for playing Milos Hrma in Closely section look for directors The East of the West program, For I attend the Visegrad co-pro- tion with Slovakia. Mel Gibson is here to receive Watched Trains. Maw Naing and Rob Brown. Some Inexplicable Reason by duction meeting. It is a nice ini- Any other must-do events for a Crystal Globe. Here for Another View section Jan Březina will be showing Gábor Reisz will be shown in tiative that promotes the coopera- Magyar film fans? British director and artist Ben are Shira Geffen, Benedikt Maria Stock and Jana Ševčíková East of the West as well, while tion of the four Visegrad On July 9, the Hungarian Rivers is here being paid tribute Erlingsson, and David Zellner. Lean a Ladder Against Heaven in Why Are All the Seats So Far countries: the Czech Republic, National Film Fund throws a par- for and presenting his unique KVIFF will pay tribute to the Czech films category. Apart in This Light-Rail Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. ty at the Pupp where we screen body of work, and India’s most Anonymous Content, bringing Also watch for Roman Station? is screening in the Fresh We would all be happy to see teasers of the upcoming highly-acclaimed filmmaker Steve Golin and Michael Sugar. Balayan whose Flights in Dreams Selection. more films co-produced by these Hungarian films our fund sup- Anurag Kashyap will be festival Director Debra Granik will also and in Reality will be playing in What kind of opportunity countries; usually something ported. I hope some of them will presenting his films. join presenting Winter’s Bone as the Out of the Past Section. z does KVIFF provide for good comes out when we com- come to KVIFF in 2015... (WT) Paola Petri, wife of the late Elio a part of the tribute. (MT)

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Brian Kenety The French have a word to describe that feeling of being truly outside of your element because you’re not in your country – dé- paysement – which can be good, bad, or in-between. Film, like for- eign travel, is most rewarding when novel and familiar, taking us down an unfamiliar path alongside characters we can identify with and care about. The twelve Forum of Independents films offer just such a journey. Darwin said human emotions were biologically determined and universal. The pioneering psychol- ogist Paul Ekman famously identi- fied six universal facial expres- Photo: KVIFF sions showing anger, disgust, fear, Photo: KVIFF happiness, sadness, and surprise Offbeat South Korean road movie Golden Chariot of the Sky Cultural dislocation abounds in Andrew Huculiak’s Violent (the jury’s out on contempt). If it’s not the happiness of Hollywood Anywhere Else, Ester Amrami’s feeling in the stomach right down cus on telling the story through role in life. The first indie feature life of an ordinary man.” Or could endings you seek, try Sixteen, Rob first feature film about an Israeli in the gut. You can’t even explain captured moments of emotions – film in half a century from Burma it be ostranenie, Russian for “a Brown’s urban thriller about an grad student in Berlin named Noa why. You just feel this pressure, elements that are relatable no mat- – which has greatly relaxed cen- condition of a third kind in which African ex-child soldier and aspir- (Neta Riskin) whose angst be- and you have this heavy thing.”) ter the viewer’s native tongue. sorship as it transitions to democ- a person says he’s not taking part, ing hairdresser in London, who’s comes unbearable after her thesis Among entries exploring univer- On the surface, Violent is about racy – is also the debut feature of that there is neither happiness nor drawn into and invites violence de- – a dictionary of untranslatable sal themes from unique perspec- a young woman (Dagny Backer poet/performance artist The Maw unhappiness. I’m outside of this spite his big heart. Or official words – is rejected. Living with tives is Violent, written, directed, Johnsen) hoping to escape loneli- Naing, who did a fellowship at paradigm,” as an Anywhere Else Sundance entry Little Accidents, her German boyfriend Jörg (Golo shot and scored by a group of ness. It is told in five chapters, Prague’s prestigious FAMU character says. Sara Colangelo’s moving and Euler) but unsure where it’s going, young Canadians (director Andrew each presenting a person who school, which produced the film. Music, too, is transcendent of provocative feature film debut set she flies home to take some com- Huculiak, his brother Josh as pro- loves her, at the time they last met. His first book was a surrealistic language. Three radically different in an Appalachian mining town fort in being with her (dysfunc- ducer, their cousins, and the band “Violent can best be summed up as commentary on political upheaval, sidebar films features it promi- devastated by a fatal coal mine tional) family and speaking her na- We Are The City). The film is set a young woman’s dream,” his documentaries provocative. nently: Golden Chariot of the collapse – and fresh tragedy, in the tive language. But back only days in Norway, chosen for its “raw, Huculiak says. “Below the sur- The Monk is not (though it hints at Sky, a quirky South Korean road suspicious disappearance of the before her grandma is hospital- stark beauty” but mainly to explore face, recurring sequences and society’s ills, chiefly poverty and film about sibling and band rival- boss man’s son. Both feature ized, Noa starts to feel as misun- what dépaysement could bring to meaningfully repeated dialogue alcoholism). It’s about choices fac- ries and forgiveness; the raw and preternaturally gifted young actors derstood and under pressure as the collaboration, obliging the crew [‘It feels like water. It feels like ing Zawana (Kyaw Nyi Thu), not rambling Memphis, featuring the (Roger Jean Nsengiyumva and when in Berlin. Throughout to go outside their Vancouver com- electricity.’] begin to tell a differ- yet ordained, in love with a village sublime singer Willis Earl Beal; Jacob Lofland, respectively). Anywhere Else (with dialogue in fort zone. “Many people ask ‘Why ent story of what the viewer is see- girl, and tempted by life outside and Totally Talking, a quintessen- As for surprise, if expressions German, Hebrew, English, and Norway and why Norwegian?’ and ing and experiencing through the saffron robe but loyal to his ail- tially eccentric Czech comedy are universal, some words are Yiddish) are delightful vignettes of the answer, in short, is simply be- Dagny’s eyes while she is experi- ing abbot. “Ask 100 monks if they about a deadpan customer service unique to a culture – delightfully Noa’s interviews with people talk- cause we wanted to see if it would encing a catastrophic event.” want to leave. If they’re not lying, operator who starts taking orders – unexpected in how perfectly they ing about untranslatable words work to make a film in a language If Violent is about coming to 99 will admit they do,” says a fel- on how to live – from a female describe things we’ve all experi- from their languages. (Noa has that none of us understood,” terms with death, The Monk is low novice. “Why don’t they? caller, and an equally mysterious enced. These are at the heart of a case of Italian magone, “a heavy Huculiak says. It also let them fo- about coming to terms with one’s They lack the courage to live the holidaymaker. z CRITIC’S CHOICE Boyd van Hoeij, Film Critic, The Hollywood Reporter

HISTORY OF FEAR The exact meaning of this striking and unsettling debut feature Director: Benjamin Naishtat from Argentinian director Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Benjamin Naishtat has to be France, Qatar, 2014, 79 min pieced together slowly, as the ap- July 4, 2014, 1pm, Congress Hall parently safe and almost perfect- seeming suburbs and highrises of crescendo into an irrational but up on you and that rely on sound Buenos Aires slowly come apart very real and almost hysterical and images rather than words, at the seams following a series of sense of fear. If you’re somenone this is one that you definitely unexplained occurrences that who likes films that slowly creep need to see.

Statistically, in another couple of SOMETHING MUST BREAK generations, we’ll all be queer and Director: Ester Martin Bergsmark caramel, or so it has been sug- Sweden, 2014, 81 min gested, and Something Must Break illustrates the former with July 4, 4pm, Espace Dorleans Cinema a tale of a square-peg love that doesn’t fit the convenient round though, it has to be said, the film tor Ester Martin Bergsmark is al- holes that supposedly categorize ends on a whimper rather than most refreshingly conventional in sexuality. Full of rough edges that with a bang – this striking second its depiction of unconventional add to its authenticity and charm – film from She-Male Snails direc- love.

Fabrice Du Welz, who sent ALLELUIA Emmanuelle Béart into the Thai Director: Fabrice du Welz jungle in Vinyan, makes his best Belgium, France, 2014, 90 min film to date with this Belgian vari- ation on The Honeymoon Killers July 4, 9:30pm, Karlovy Vary Theatre that stars Lola Dueñas (Penelope Cruz’s sister from Volver) and the bling religious rituals, violence, won’t soon forget Dueñas’ visit to stern-faced Laurent Lucas, the star and death but even though the film a pious Catholic lady) and eerily of Du Welz’s first feature, can be gruesome, there are also beautiful (like when Dueñas un- Calvaire. Again there are trou- scenes that are terribly funny (you expectedly belts out a song).

Grief is evoked in a masterful and VIOLET often almost silent way in this im- Director: Bas Devos pressive feature debut from Belgium, Netherlands, 2014, 82 min Belgian director Bas Devos, shot by Belgian master cinematogra- July 4, 5pm, Drahomira Cinema pher Nicolas Karakatsanis (who also shot upcoming US films The images over words, the film ex- a Brussels mall. Between this film Drop, with Tom Hardy, and The plores the confusion and loneli- and Alleluia alone, it’s clear Loft, with Wentworth Miller), who ness of a 15-year-old suburban Belgian cinema on both sides of used both 65mm and digital cam- boy after his best friend has been the language border is doing just eras. Almost always privileging randomly stabbed to death in fine. z

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FESTIVAL MAP BOX OFFICES July 4–11 July 12

Kino Drahomíra 6 main box offices Hotel Thermal 8am-midnight 8am-midnight 5 box offices at the steps outside the Hotel Thermal 8am-10pm – Last Minute box office Info Desk, Hotel Thermal 8am-midnight 8am-midnight 8 F-Bar box offices Hotel Thermal Festival8am-midnight DM 8am-1pm 2 Pupp box offices Grandhotel Pupp 9am-10pm – Vodafonebox office Hotel Thermal 8am-8pm 8am-8pm Box office at the Derby “Tent Town” campsite 8am-noon –

Kavalerie Aeroport Klub Crux Adria Espace Dorleans Kino Čas APT Verona Festivalový obchod Barracuda / Foo Paa Jizera Finlandia Bar Less Ordinary Romania Thermal Dětské centrum Kosmos Pavlov Růže Malta Kolonáda

Vila Barrandov Studia Sirius (Becherova vila) Venus Lázně III Stanové městečko - Rolava Modena Ulrika Čajkovskij Palace Lafonte Slovan Villa Lauretta Salvator Villa Charlotte Ontario Palatin Mignon

Eliška Heluan Chebský dvůr Jean de Carro

Promenáda Schlosspark Esplanade Mozart

Dům ČT Olympia Karlovarské městské divadlo Maltézský kříž Dvořák Embassy Alisa Divadlo Husovka Bokovka - Ambiente Quisisana Palace St. Petersburg

Grandhotel Pupp Pupp

Villa Basileia

Richmond Galerie umění

Kinosál / Cinema Hotel Poštovní dvůr Festivalový obchod/Festival Shop Letní kino Klub / Club Galerie / Gallery Dětské centrum / Day Care Centre Půjčovna kol/ Bike Rental map © Paret2 s.r.o., 2014

ON THE TOWN EVENTS

Becherplatz Pivovar Karel IV. Republica Coffee There are a couple of concerts happen- T.G.Masaryka 57, Tel. 353 599 999, becherplatz.cz T. G. Masaryka 28, Tel. 777 559 344 ing tonight at the Thermal stage to help Open 11am-midnight Opening hours: 7am – “very late” during festival us all get a festival buzz going. Folk-rock Anyone interested in sampling some local cuisine It seems the world’s love affair with designer coffee combo Listolet, who got a lot of radio should make a beeline for this well-run establishment has finally reached KV and this new arrival is bound to airplay last year with their single Lullaby, near the bus station. Located in a huge, wood-paneled be a hit with discerning caffeine addicts. The friendly will be starting their set at 5:30pm. basement with copper vats, this microbrewery offers resident barista is more than happy to prepare your bev- There’s some more indie sounds in the a wide selection of short-order Czech specialties, in- erage of choice along with a nice range of cakes and same place at 8:30pm with Republic of cluding svíčková (a beef-roast in a sweet-and-sour other snacks (50-100 CZK). Two who were touted as the Czech dis- creamy sauce served with dumplings) and goulash, (all With an attractive, red-bricked interior as well as free covery of the year in 2010. (Check out costing in the region of 150-300 CZK). There’s also Wi-Fi and ample plug sockets for laptops, this estab- their video for The Pillow on YouTube, which went pretty viral here a while a decent choice of hearty beef, pork, and chicken (160- Photo: Milan Malíček lishment is an excellent choice for hard-pressed hacks 400 CZK) and tasty beer snacks – costing around 40- Becherplatz is a good bet for Czech cuisine. who are looking for somewhere to recharge their bat- back. They sing a lot of their songs in 130 CZK. It goes without saying that the restaurant’s teries (literally and figuratively) while filing some English, so should be pretty accessible excellent array of light and dark in-house beers (40-50 are plenty of large tables for those who want to dine in copy. Non-smokers will appreciate the fact that you for international audiences.) After that, CZK) are well worth sampling. Thanks to the spacious big groups. If you have time, make sure to visit the ad- can’t light up downstairs while those who need their you can stay for the fireworks display, dining hall, this place is a good bet for getting a seat, jacent Jan Becher Museum, named after the man be- fix of tobacco are banished to the first floor or the pret- which will ceremonially kick-start the even when the festival is at its most crowded, and there hind KV’s favorite tipple – Becherovka. (COC) ty courtyard with tables at the back. (COC) fest at 9:50pm. (COC/MT)

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