I Think Everything Is Politics

1/7 2013 SPECIAL EDITION OF FREE KVIFF’s MAIN MEDIA PARTNER

INSIDE Today’s Official Selection films English Section, page 2-3

Sidebar celebrates spirit of Independents English Section, page 4

Tomorrow’s program Czech Section, pages 5-8 Photo: Jan Handrejch Jerry Schatzberg helped launch Al Pacino on the road to international stardom. I THINK EVERYTHING IS POLITICS LOWDOWN Celebrities have responsibilities be- US INDIE PIONEER JERRY SCHATZBERG ON WHY THEY LOVE HIM MORE IN FRANCE sides looking fabulous and calling on society to save rain forests. Among Will Tizard lucky – they were always telling the I didn’t really care for it that much. And with funny things. That was all from hav- their most grave duties – feasting on American critics that they’ve criticized he was managing Al Pacino at the time ing that freedom of talking and being to- rich food and libation without ever gain- When fashion photographer Jerry me badly and why they were wrong. and he said, “And Al is interested” and gether. ing weight aside – is the notorious Schatzberg decided in 1970 to cast one of Were you consciously embracing an I said, ‘Aah.’ He just opened it up for me I read that Francis Ford Coppola press junket. This involves recounting his New York models, Faye Dunaway, as element of the counterculture political – where I could see how I could do it. had to show producers your footage of tales told a thousand times with fresh- a troubled glamor queen dogged by men- movement with films about characters But you were always drawn to the Pacino from Panic to convince them he ness while scanning the room and tal illness in Puzzle of a Downfall Child, grappling with emotional breakdowns, street and the characters inhabiting it, could pull off the Michael Corleone gauging how well one’s charm status is the result helped forge an independent addiction and unemployment? right? You are credited with bringing role in Godfather. faring – no small feat. In fact, many of film movement that remade American cin- I think everything is politics, no matter fashion photography out into the He screen tested four times for Hollywood’s best performances are ema. This film, along with his next two, what you talk about. If you talk about streets. Paramount, and they rejected him all four surely done off camera. The Panic in Needle Park and family relationships, it’s politics. I’m a New Yorker, brought up in the times. And Francis asked if I would lend Czech film legends are no slouch at Scarecrow, showed up the major studios Anything. It’s not, “Okay, we’re having Bronx, and I always liked hanging out. him some footage. I sent it to him and this, as evidenced by an interview with as hopelessly out of touch with a society an election tomorrow,” but it’s the social But Al is too. That helped make it that when they saw that he got the part. pioneering 1960s auteur Vojtěch Jasný. in the throes of a major upheaval. All politics that go on all the time. I saw way. And I think Al’s brother was a drug And you’re now developing after 40 The octogenarian filmmaker got a boost three are screening this year in the sec- a wonderful Japanese film this morning addict. years a sequel to Scarecrow? Where yesterday during his chat about tion Tribute to Jerry Schatzberg. about families and it was all politics. You Pacino is like a caged animal in your are these two characters now? Marshal Tito, KGB assassins, and the see the different levels of social strata, films – he’s always on the move. Was it I’ve written a sequel to Scarecrow. art of storytelling for the big screen. When your films of the 1970s came how they treat their siblings... a challenge to harness that perform- Everybody in Europe says, “What a great As a Daily reporter endeavored to out in the US, they weren’t nearly as So were you consciously trying to ance? idea.” In America they say, “We don’t write down the overflowing fount of well received at home as they were shake up the establishment a bit by de- It was his first film, my second film. We want to do that – we want to do Iron tales, none other than one John abroad, were they? Now they’re being ciding to shoot Joan Didion’s screen- spent about a month and a half just hang- Man.” They have the carwash now, very Travolta sauntered up to the Pupp studied in American film schools... play based on the book Panic in Needle ing out with [actress] Kitty Winn. It was successful. Al is damaged from his cata- restaurant table to greet him. Europeans – the French especially – al- Park? such a luxury, which doesn’t exist now. tonia. But he went back to school and “Look how good you look!” said the ways find things about America that No, because I didn’t get into it that way. We liked the script; we liked the idea of he’s a computer geek. He’s the brains be- American star, kissing the director Americans have no idea exists. Then they I had seen a number of drug films on tel- the script. But it needed a lot of them to hind the business while Hackman is the Italian-style on the cheek for emphasis. pick it up later. Also future generations evision and when it was presented to me bring it to life. Just being together and bluster. I saw Pacino about a month ago, “We love each other. John’s such always pick up on things that the first set I turned it down. I went up to my manag- talking. In Scarecrow, he had already and I gave him the script and he took it a comic and good man, very human,” of critics didn’t see and didn’t want to see er’s office and he said there’s a good made The Godfather, so now he was and said, “I’ll read it.” If Al would say, Jasný explained, clearly enjoying the at- because it wasn’t what they see every script out there – it’s called Panic in a star. But we still hung out, walking the “Gee, I’d like to do that,” then we’ll find tention. “He’s big on the American mar- day. But the French – I’ve been very Needle Park. And I said I’d read it, but streets, and talking about scenes, came up a way. y ket, so I’m also being shrewd.” y SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER

DIRECTOR, CONSTRUCTING THE PRODUCTION JURAJ LEHOTSKÝ MIRACLE Anyone who saw the explosive opening ceremony will have one image stamped indelibly on their memories – I would like to see the competing documentary Exhibits or Stories from the Castle aside from a clearly thrilled Travolta working the crowd Exhibits or Stories from the Castle. I’m interested in screens today at 5pm in the to squeals of “Džón! Džón!” – yes, we’re talking about it because it’s my style; not only because it’s Slovak, Drahomíra Cinema. Velvet Terrorists the amazing wheelchair dance that culminated in show- but also because it is about old people living in a cas- also screens today at 4pm in the ers of sparks rocketing from the backs of these self-evi- tle, a simple story. I like simple stories, and I’ve heard Karlovy Vary Theatre and tomorrow at dently souped-up mobility devices. it’s about life during old age, about what their values 1:30pm in Lázně III. This one-of-a-kind number was once again the brain- are. I’ve been thinking about this theme; it’s interest- child of Brno theater mavens, the fraternal duo of Šimon ing because it’s far from my own experience. and Michal Caban, whose student-formed dance com- Maybe it’ll look like I appreciate only Slovak films, pany Ballet Unit Spasm featured in Twyla Tharp’s Don but I’d really like to see Velvet Terrorists. I know [co- Giovanni scene in Forman’s Amadeus. The Caban broth- director] Peter Kerekes. I loved his 66 Seasons. I like ers, who also juggle stage design and architecture prac- this crazy idea of making a film about people who tices, choreograph all the dance numbers that accompa- were arrested because they wanted to attack high-lev- ny the fest opening and closing ceremonies. They’ve el communist officials. I’ve seen the trailer and it been firmly in the fest foreground for 18 years now, and signer Martin Chocholoušek is back with another slick looks very funny, like a black comedy, and I would KVIFF production chief Petr Lintimer is continually im- customization of the Thermal’s exteriors, created espe- like to see how they do this from the point of view of pressed: “They’re a perfect team,” he says. “Michal and cially for the festival. But who (you must be wondering) three directors. It’s a very playful idea, to make a film Šimon are the best guys; they have really good ideas.” actually builds all this stuff? That, dear readers, is all the about three “heroes” who wanted to do something Also well into a long run of successful KVIFF collab- work of Michal Starý’s crack team of construction staff – bad. y (PLC) oration, at least a decade so far, architect and stage de- and doubtless several miles of duct tape. y (WT/PLC) strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Monday, July 1, 2013

OFFICIAL SELECTION VIVA LA LIBERTA – WHEN A PROPHET AND A POLITICIAN ARE TWINS

Zbyněk Vlasák Who would make for the better opposition party leader? The worn-out incumbent chairman or his twin brother, a philosopher freshly discharged from a mental hospital? The KVIFF Official Selection film Viva la Liberta by Roberto Andò leaves it to the viewer to decide. Enrico Oliveri (Toni Servillo) heads a left-wing political party that is quickly losing voter support, and while he lacks the energy and vision to save it, he knows there’s no one within the party

better suited to lead it. At the end Photo: KVIFF of his tether, he leaves behind Toni Servillo rises to the challenge of playing dual roles. a farewell note one night and crosses into France incognito. start over. Start over from other therefore, to politics, as well as Desperate to keep their leader’s principles, leaving behind pre- the way the state can interact with disappearance quiet, the party’s tense as a form of government, in- its citizens (soberly or with spon- éminence grise, Andrea Bottini deed, as a model of political com- taneity). (Valerio Mastandrea), hits upon munication,” Andò says. Viva la Liberta provided a radical solution: he tracks down The eccentric Giovanni does a unique opportunity for the actor Enrico’s twin, Giovanni, and taps offer such a fresh start. His playing the diametrically opposed the depths of his diplomatic acu- speeches quoting Bertolt Brecht Oliveri brothers. And Toni men to persuade him to play the impress both the crowds and his Servillo, whom you might have role of his brother – at least for fellow politicians, and voter sup- seen in the Italian political a few days if not weeks. port rises. He manages to instill movies Il Divo and Gomorrah, Using parodic motifs, Andò’s new hope and energy in them just rose to the challenge. He had an film, based on his popular origi- by describing accurately what is advantage from the start – Andò nal novel The Empty Throne, de- going on around them. wrote the parts with him in mind. picts the current dismal state of It’s just a question of time, “I would never have made this (not only) Italian politics with un- however, before Enrico recovers, film if Toni Servillo hadn’t agreed believable lightness. returns home, and tries to resume to the project,” he says. “I would “We’re in the middle of an his role unnoticed. And perhaps have contented myself with the epochal crisis that has struck the build on the positive legacy left success of the novel.” criteria around which the West behind by Giovanni, who is more has been functioning, a crisis that of a prophet than a practical Viva la Liberta screens today at hits the role of economics and politician, and bring the two poles 5pm in the Thermal’s Grand Hall, politics, and we’re all convinced back together again. In this way, tomorrow at 10:30am in the Pupp that we’ve arrived at the point of Andò compares two basic men- Cinema, and on July 4 at 11:30am no return, that it’s necessary to talities and approaches to life and, in the Drahomíra Cinema. y OFFICIAL SELECTION PAPUSZA – THE TRAGIC LIFE AND TIMES OF A CARAVAN POETESS

Zbyněk Vlasák Polish directing couple Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze, who won the 2005 Crystal Globe with My Nikifor, return to the main competition this year with Papusza. It tells the story of a Romany poetess and her discoverer, ethnographer Jerzy Ficowski, whose book later re- vealed Roma history and customs to other Poles. “Romany culture has rarely been greeted with interest, evok- ing fear and aggression instead. Photo: KVIFF With his monograph, Jerzy Papusza is shot predominantly in the Romani language. Ficowski shed new light on the Roma and contributed to a better Roma, who feared the unknown ter throughout. “Papusza is a fas- understanding of that group,” the and were also jealous of what ed- cinating character – a Roma girl, filmmakers say. “He confronted ucation could bring. “If the Roma born in a caravan, an autodidact, the schemes and prejudices. We had memory, they would die out who in the end was mentioned in want to follow Jerzy’s steps and for fear of the future,” Papusza the world’s encyclopedias and had show our audience the pure and says in the film. her work translated into many lan- passionate soul of the Gypsy cul- Her words take on greater guages,” the filmmakers say. The ture.” At the same time, the weight as they are uttered a few film covers significant moments Krauzes don’t gloss over the neg- years after the murder of some in the poetess’s life, ranging from ative impact that Ficowski’s book 35,000 Polish Roma during her time with a Jewish merchant had on ‘Papusza’ herself. WWII, leaving only 15,000 sur- who gave her a basic education, to As a young man in the 1940s, vivors. The storyline follows the a forced marriage in her teens to Ficowski flees from authorities group’s history from the 1930s an aging uncle, to the publication following a clash with a commu- through the aftermath of the com- of her poems after Ficowski re- nist official. To survive the tumul- munist authorities’ 1950 decision turned to Warsaw. It also looks at tuous time when communism is to force the Roma to abandon her own community’s backlash tightening its grip on the country, their nomadic life. against her once his study of the he finds refuge with a group of It’s shot in striking black and Roma hits the bookshelves, which lowland Roma whose ancestors white and 80 percent of the dia- saw her spend the rest of her life had wandered through Poland for logue is in Romani, mostly spo- in almost total isolation. centuries. It is there that he meets ken by non-actors, but a number Bronisława Wajs – the gifted po- of professional actors had to learn Papusza screens today at 8pm in etess known as Papusza. the language too. The soundtrack the Thermal’s Grand Hall, tomorrow Before his arrival, Papusza’s de- is also partly based on the first at 1:30pm in the Pupp Cinema, and sire to learn to read and write had ever opera with a Romani libretto. on July 4 at 9am in the Drahomíra raised suspicion among other The poetess remains at the cen- Cinema. y

OFFICIAL SELECTION MY KV 11.6 – THE FRENCH Silvia Costa Member of the European Parliament (Italy) CRIME OF THE CENTURY This is your first time at KV- IFF. What are your impres- sions thus far? I know what this festival has stood for since 1949 and how it has contributed to the development and promotion of European cinema. It is one of the oldest prestigious festivals in Europe and I am really very moved because, now that I’m here, I re- member the Prague Spring of 1968 when my father travelled to this country as the head of a public-service television delegation. He told me about the great hopes

Photo: KVIFF felt by the Czech people back Philippe Godeau’s 11.6 explores the motives of real-life criminal-cum-folk hero Toni Musulin. then. So being here today in the Czech Republic, which is now Zbyněk Vlasák ish his bosses. For that matter, therefore lays bare a certain kind a fully-fledged part of Europe, is the thief even turned himself in at of social discrimination. The genuinely moving for me. Philippe Godeau has made a police station in Monaco. In the people in Musulin’s circle made And what exactly are you a remarkable attempt at recon- meantime, his story became it clear to him that his status as doing here? structing events that the whole of a phenomenon on social net- a security guard meant he wasn’t I came here to announce the ten Photo: KVIFF France talked about in 2009. In works and one rapper also wrote really supposed to own a flash films nominated for this year’s pecially among the new genera- countries, be it the Balkan or November of that year, security a song about him. car, even though he had earned LUX Prize. Since 2007, the tions of young professionals who Mediterranean countries, but also guard Toni Musulin stole a com- In Godeau’s film treatment of the money for it. European Parliament has award- want to find out about the oppor- BRICS countries. pany van with 11.6 million euros the heist, he primarily concen- “I'm a first class citizen who ed this prize to films reflecting tunities the program offers – as How do you feel about pro- on board. For Godeau, it was trated on uncovering Musulin’s can only afford second class,” his the richness and diversity of well as the things that have been posed cuts in EU culture budg- helpful that the crime looked motivations. “From the very be- character says in the film. European culture. The aim is to newly added.... ets? like something straight out of ginning, what mattered to me To be able to put together make the top three competing There is great interest in a new fi- I will be fighting for the cuts in a movie: the execution was sim- wasn't so much the heist as the Musulin’s story, as well as his films (to be announced July 23) nancial instrument which will the culture budgets to be in pro- ple and not a single shot was story of that man who’d been an motives and the circumstances of accessible to the broader public complement the existing project portion with the other cuts be- fired; there was not a hint of vio- armored-car guard for ten years the theft, Godeau had to choose via LUX Film Days, subtitling financing – the existing grants. cause there are such serious con- lence. After ten years of service, with no police record, who one an actor who could hold all that them into 24 EU languages and This is the European EFI fund; cerns. The other thing we fought Musulin was trusted by everyone day decided to take action,” he together and had the charisma to screening them in all 28 member it should help national financial for in the European Parliament, so all he had to do was drive qui- says. “How come this punctual, support the whole length of the states (luxprize.eu). institutions that would like to and what I personally really etly out of the parking lot at hard-working, seemingly perfect, movie. His choice for the role I am also here as a representative support projects in this area. The fought for, is the presence of a moment when the money was lonely employee, who kept his was perfect and François Cluzet of the European Parliament and jointly-invested money will be European cultural and audiovisu- supposed to be unloaded and his distance from unions, ended up is bound to be a favorite for the a correspondent for the Creative devoted to the support of small al services as well as products in colleagues left him alone with pulling off the heist of the centu- best actor award at KVIFF. And Europe program, which is in and medium-sized business in the bigger debate between the a vehicle chock-full of ban- ry and went to the other side?” there’s every chance 11.6 will al- charge of developing European the sphere of culture and creative European Union and the United knotes. Godeau also focused on the so be among the front runners for culture and the audiovisual in- industries... States. The thief himself says the social aspects of the theft. the Crystal Globe. dustry from 2014 to 2020. Also important is to pay more at- money wasn’t his main motiva- Musulin was doing well before What does that involve? tention to the international di- If you’d like to find out more tion. In fact, 9.1 million euros the theft; he even bought 11.6 screens today at 10.30am Today I have presented our pro- mension and continue beyond about the Creative Europe pro- was later found in an under- a Ferrari at auction from part of in the Pupp Cinema and on July 3 gram priorities and a few impor- Europe to support global proj- gram, you can write to Silvia Costa ground garage. According to his savings, but he never gained at 11:30am in the Drahomíra tant things came up during the ects... So the plan is to make bi- at [email protected] Musulin, he only wanted to pun- the respect he desired. The movie Cinema. y debate. There is great interest, es- lateral agreements with third y (COC/PH) FACES CRITIC’S CHOICE Boyd van Hoeij, Film Critic, The Hollywood Reporter

WADJDA This is a delightful first film, produced with a mix of European Directed by: Haifaa al Mansour and Middle Eastern money, that Saudi Arabia, Germany, not only tells the story of a young 2012, 93 min girl's rebellion against the estab- July 1, 9am, Grand Hall – Thermal lishment in Saudi Arabia but has a delicious irony in the fact that by Waad Mohammed, uses the freedom: a green bike (women the little girl of the title, convinc- mastery of religion to obtain the are not allowed to ride bikes in ingly and very naturally played object that will symbolize her the kingdom). Lance Edmands Jerzy Kowynia Marteinn Þórsson

VIC+FLO SAW A BEAR This is Quebec film critic-turned- director Denis CÔté’s best film to Directed by: Denis Côté date and tells the rather unusual Canada, 2013, 95 min story of two middle-aged les- July 1, 9:30pm, bians, one of whom just got out of Cinema B – Thermal prison. They live in the sticks and find themselves being forced to who initially seems friendly but eye for character and performed deal with several unpleasant mat- turns out to be anything but. This by some great actors. Also: be- ters, including a butch woman is 100% quirky but with a great ware of the bear traps.

Tomasz Wasilewski Xavier Bermúdez Helena Třeštíková HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUD How should one describe this Keep a weather eye out today the West prize, KVIFF wel- Helena Třeštíková, the veter- movie? It's more about atmos- Directed by: David Verbeek for the delegation from Spanish comes Tomasz Wasilewski, di- an Czech documentarist and phere and feeling and location Netherlands, 2013, 80 min official competitor The Value rector of Floating Skyscrapers, winner of multiple awards is re- than about any precise story, 4C2 – July 1, 2013, 12:30pm, of Time. Director Xavier “the first Polish LGBT film,” as turns to KVIFF today for her though there is some of that, too. Čas Cinema Bermúdez is in town with ac- he puts it. He’s in for some com- out-of-competition Official David Verbeek is a Dutch director tors Nerea Barros and Ernesto petition from Serbian Miloš Selection Life with Jester, an- who's mainly worked in Taiwan Chinese. It beautifully reflects ality and imagined reality can all Chao for the world premiere to- Pušić’s tale of generational other of her patiently ambitious and China and this film is again how the old and the new, the co-exist on a single island off the morrow. They’re up against strife Withering, and from longitudinal studies shot over set in Taiwan and entirely in countryside and the city, and re- coast of China. American writer and director Slovak effort Velvet Terrorists – several years. Lance Edmands’ Bluebird, one third of the writing/direct- From Italy we welcome IT’S ALL SO QUIET fielding a half dozen strong ing trio, Peter Kerekes, is ex- world-renowned actress Valeria The title's already a hint: Not a lot team of composers and produc- pected in town today. Another Golino (Rain Man, etc.) here for is said in this movie. Dutch direc- Directed by: Nanouk Leopold ers. Also look out for Icelandic hot competitor expected today, her directorial debut feature Netherlands, Germany, director Marteinn Þórsson, this time from the Forum of Miele, which was selected for tor Nanouk Leopold prefers to tell here along with actors María Independents, is acclaimed Horizons this year. She’s joined her story in images and sounds. 2013, 93 min Birta Bjarnadóttir and Olafur Polish documentarist Jerzy by another Italian arriving to- The50-year-old farmer protago- July 1, 3:30pm, Cinema B – Thermal Darri Olafsson to present the Kowynia, writer and director of day: Maurizio Braucci, one of nist, Helmer, decides he needs to international premiere of XL, an the grittily real Kamchatka, the writing team behind The move his bossy but ill father up- and sound design are impressive and closed, downturned mouth alcoholic’s last binge. which represents his first foray Interval in the Another View stairs so he can come into his own but it's the acting that will finally tell everything you need to know Here for the coveted East of into features. sidebar. y (PLC) downstairs. The cinematography stay with you. Helmer's sad eyes about his life and pain. y

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Peter Le Couteur tional premieres with the film- camerawork), but its troubles are stringent social observation, this giving a unique insight to the tional difference. Verbeek is a vet- makers “personally present.” absurdly bathetic. film clearly benefits from direc- role. Perhaps most astonishingly, eran of the low budget feature, re- For many festivalgoers who “Our experience is that film- From a way farther east comes tor Fernando Lavanderos’s expe- Sandy herself was an unexpected portedly having shot his 2004 de- fancy a turn with the beret and makers usually stay the whole Filipino feature debut Mamay rience with documentary. Low late addition to the plot, master- but for 500 euros. How to megaphone themselves, the period of the festival; they watch Umeng. Dwein Baltazar wrote Tide’s writer and director Paulo fully incorporated by Fleischner. Describe a Cloud is his sixth, and Forum of Independents is a fes- each other’s films, talk to each and directed this unflinching Pécora is a film journalist and This is low-budget with the spe- he’s clearly got the knack, incor- tival highlight. Not only does other and become one big family meditation on aging, whose 84 festival jurist besides, and though cial effects only reality can pro- porating incidental HD footage FOI showcase top talent, it also and big fans of the festival,” year old lead Gerry Adeva re- it’s a second feature, his director vide. seamlessly with scripted scenes. shows what can be achieved on Novotná adds. portedly passed away only a few credit on nearly 30 shorts shows North again to Canada’s Class Back again to Europe via a very limited budget. This year Always inspiring, this year’s days after the premiere. After through. This unsettling thriller of ‘09, also a portrait of place and Kamchatka; a Polish convict is – for the first time – the twelve titles are also strikingly working as a stylist on three fea- builds the tension from haunting time, though of a very different given compassionate leave to at- Independent Camera Award international, balancing six tures and three series, Baltazar fi- jungle minimalism to an unex- cast. Rafaël Ouellet – who tend his mother’s funeral, but comes with a 5000-euro purchase European titles with six from nally got her chance in the canvas pected amount of gunplay with bagged Best Director here at KV- a less than compassionate recep- deal courtesy of ČT, the Czech much further afield. Bridging the chair when her script – which deft ease. IFF last year for Camion – wrote, tion. Germany offers up some national network. Senior KVIFF gap between Europe and the tackles the thoughtless idealiza- Moving north to the United directed and produced this faux- saucy Love Steaks in a luxury ho- Programmer Ivana Novotná says wider world is Turkish director tion of longevity – won a Cinema States, we have Stand Clear documentary, shot as if by the tel. Two films that have screened ČT’s initiative came as they were Onur Ünlü’s Thou Gild’st the One grant. After a tie for Best of the Closing Doors, Sam students it portrays. Though the already saw Belgium tackle the thinking of “a new approach” to Even, which plucked a host of Film at Jeonju IFF this year, Fleischner’s innovative portrait conceit is sometimes a little absurdity of religious hypocrisy the selection and award, and that Golden Tulips in Istanbul this Baltazar can expect further inter- of New York seen through the strained by the mix of the truly (In the Name of the Son), and besides the money, ČT’s commit- year. Ünlü’s latest offering is an national interest. eyes of an autistic boy set adrift amateur with more evident skill France charting a chance meeting ment to screening the winning ostentatiously stylized black-and- South America is represented on the subway system. As and some very steady hands, the in the Romanian wilderness film will be a “real and practical” white affair combining a magical by Low Tide from Argentina and Hurrican Sandy closes in on the excellent score and editing make (Hungry Man). An audacious prize. realist aesthetic with timeless Things the Way They Are from city, Ricky’s surreal subterranean this an affecting and surprisingly concept flick The Sad Smell of This development continues folktale psychology. Chile. Winning Best Latin journey is paralleled by his har- mournful coming of age. Flesh, completes the list, painting FOI’s evolution to a more “ex- The film’s small Anatolian American Film at the Mar del ried Mexican mother’s quest to Dutch writer/director David its portrait of Spain’s recession clusive and special” awarded sec- town setting may be home to Plata FF with its blend of striking bring him home. Ricky is played Verbeek bridges Europe with evictions in a single, unbroken tion in 2008, focusing on interna- some outlandish abilities (and non-actor performances and by a non-actor with Asperger's, Taiwan in his study of genera- 90-minute take. y ON THE TOWN EVENTS

Bistro Lázně III hours. If only this pop-up cafe VOJTĚCH DYK & B-SIDE BAND tles (July 4, 7:30pm at Lázně III, and July Mlýnské nábřeží 5 would stay open all year. / FROM 6PM / OUTDOOR 1, 10:30pm at Drahomíra, respectively). CINEMA, SLOVENSKÁ The other two screenings will have on- www.lazneiii.cz Café Elefant ly Czech subtitles. Open 10am-3am Cuban jazz from Los Rumberos followed Stará Louka 30 KVIFF TALKS: KATRIEL SCHORY Don’t settle for the old 353 229 270 by Dyk’s big band swing, and funk from school East Bloc-style eatery Open 9am-10pm Gang of Lolitas. 199 CZK advance or / 11AM / JAMESON LOUNGE inside this historic spa building 300 CZK at the door. on the Promenade. During KV- Café Elefant is a particularly Marketing and distribution from the pro- IFF, the streetside cafe is the fine example of the local A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD ducer´s point of view, with the Executive- place to watch life (and the odd cukrárna or high-end coffee PINTER / 8PM / GALERIE UMĚNÍ Director of the Israel Film Fund. film starlet) roll by. Already shop. This elegant Viennese- a great hangout for light snacks style outlet has a nice range of Esteemed British actor Julian Sands’ WORKS IN PROGRESS 2013 / and open-air imbibing last year, coffees (mostly costing 69 one-man tribute to the Nobel Prize-win- 1:30PM-5PM / CONGRESS the management has now in- CZK), complemented by a deli- ning writer visits Karlovy Vary tonight. HALL stalled a smoking burger grill cious range of exceedingly good Directed by John Malkovich, excerpts that serves up tasty cheddar-ba- sweets and deserts for around from Pinter’s poetry and prose inter- Besides the Workshop for Distributors con, pesto-caprese and onion- 70-90 CZK. (We particularly weave with anecdotes of Sands’ per- in Becher’s Villa at 10am, the Works in Swiss-cheese iterations for just enjoyed demolishing a sinfully sonal friendship with him – guaranteed Progress event presents 19 upcoming 85 CZK. Fries are an extra 35- rich strudel). The service ain’t compelling stuff. 150 CZK. films with premieres after July 2013 65 CZK but come with tartar Photo: Milan Malíček exactly brisk but who cares PROGRAM CHANGE: which lack an international sales agent. sauce at no extra charge and Café Elefant has an old-world Habsburg feel to it. when you can indulge in some Central and Eastern European and post- they do a tempting foccacia as al fresco people-watching from The formerly-banned films of Czech di- USSR filmmakers present their recently well as pizza slices (70-85 the job and goes well with ap- A fabulously well-situated the lovely terrace on the pedes- rector Kira Muratova – A Long Goodbye completed or post-production features CZK). Salads are also hefty ple koláč and chocolate fondant spot for a quick top-up with trian boulevard leading to the and Brief Encounters – will have only to international distributers, agents and (60-145 CZK). Illy coffee does sweets. frisky service and unbeatable Pupp. y (WT/COC) one screening each with English subti- programmers. y (PLC)

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1/ Despite the weather, everyone’s goin’ surfin’ at the Vodafone Beach

2/ Theater thespian Julian Sands (A Celebration of Harold Pinter) puts in some face time at the Pupp

3/ KVIFF President’s Award winner Vojtěch Jasný (left) and John Travolta Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: KVIFF