Maybe I Went Too Far

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Tomorrow’s program Czech Section, pages 7-10 Photo: Jan Handrejch Besides presenting his latest film, Michel Gondry will also be giving a Master Class at this year’s festival. MAYBE I WENT TOO FAR... LOWDOWN It seems that Karlovy Vary’s culinary MICHEL GONDRY ON FILM ADAPTATIONS AND NOT TRYING TO REEL IN HIS IMAGINATION world is aspiring toward the decor of diners and delis on the Sunset Strip, Veronika Bednářová, I like to do both. And I give the same im- other way around. If I have some expe- change them. To avoid something I’ve which sport the names and glossy portance to both of them. The idea of the rience in my life, even if it’s painful, seen in movies, showing problems. photos of megawatt celebs who’ve Kristýna Pleskotová film in the bus, I had it for years, even I can use it as inspiration for the So what’s the problem of Audrey dined over the years. The Lowdown longer than to do Mood Indigo. So when movies. But I don’t feel that using it as Tautou then? was just perusing the menu at Tandoor French director Michel Gondry is I got the opportunity, even with nobody inspiration helps me. I don’t really be- When I said “weakness” I knew you when we noticed an odd scrawl across here with his latest film, Mood Indigo, famous, it was really important for me. lieve in that. would ask that! the top of the plastic-enclosed page of an adaptation of Boris Vian’s cult With Mood Indigo, did you have to You said somewhere you like work- She’s too beautiful? Indian delights. novel L'Écume des jours (Foam of the rein in your own imagination at all? ing with comedians rather than ac- She’s very beautiful. That’s not her Not quite able to decipher it, other Days), which was the festival’s open- Were you sometimes thinking, this is tors; what’s the difference? weakness. It could be a weakness than “for Nizam – all best wishes,” dis- ing film. He talked to the Festival Daily too much of my fantasy, I should do The difference is more in the USA, be- though. She has sometimes a way of creet inquiries were made, and it turns about why making films is nothing like less? cause there is the category who come speaking... like Arletty, the actress from therapy. Well, I didn’t really stop myself! Maybe from television and those who come the 1940s. I would tell her when it’s too out the autograph is from none other I went too far, but I was pretty free. I re- from movies, and they have a different much like that, it’s a sort of accent of than Todd Solondz, the American indie When did you first read the book? ally wanted to feel free to express my relationship with the camera. The come- Paris in some ways, you could call it. arthouse godhead and writer/director Did you have some of the images of memories of the book, and express it vi- dians have a tendency to use the camera She’s not from Paris, in fact, she’s from of hilariously neurotic films such as the movie in your mind when you sually. The story is pretty simple, so as a mirror, because they’re used to talk- the center of France... And the good Welcome to the Dollhouse. Life during read the book for the first time? I thought I could push the visuals quite ing to the camera on TV, and they have thing is that she doesn’t get upset. Wartime and Dark Horse. I had read the book when I was 14, and far. And I had a girlfriend like ten years a harder time forgetting about the cam- And you give a lot of freedom to It seems the inspiring auteur, I had memories from this first reading ago that got really sick, so I could iden- era. And so my job is to distract them. your actors... a rather fussy vegetarian, read a re- which stuck with me for all this time... tify with the role of Colin. She survived, On the other hand, they have a better Yes, I always let them do what they have view last year of the excellent little The materialization of the light was but she was close because she had rhythm than the more dramatic actors, in mind in the beginning. And then I cor- family-run restaurant around the cor- something that I remember very well. leukemia. It was really bad for a while. they have more energy. I just have to be rect them. And I let them influence each ner from the KVIFF mothership Hotel Your previous movie The We and Would you consider filmmaking as aware that I have to pull away the cam- other so we find the tone like that. If you Thermal and headed over, causing the I was very indie, just a bus and therapy for you? era from their consciousness... In give them direction before they even try general pandemonium among fans at some kids, while Mood Indigo is full No, if anything it aggravates me, it France it’s a little bit the same. But Gad anything, I think they forget about their other tables. He kindly signed a menu of big stars such as Romain Duris, doesn’t really help me. It’s just some- Elmaleh comes more from stand up. own idea of the character and you may for the ever-present owner, and if Audrey Tautou and the well-known thing I can do, so I do it. But I don’t do He’s always very natural with the cam- miss something really interesting. you’re lucky that very menu may end French-Moroccan comedian Gad it to feel better. I don’t know what era. What I do is I watch all the movies up on your table from which you can Elmaleh. Which of these moviemak- I should do to feel better... It’s just that from each actor I can. I try to look for Mood Indigo screens again on July 4 at order a veggie jal frezi in Solondz’s ing environments suits you best? I’m happy to do this job... It’s rather the their weakness, to help or correct or 4pm in the Pupp Cinema. y honor. y SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER

DIRECTOR, WHAT’S HELEN MIRREN DOING WITH AN ORB?! DAVID ONDŘÍČEK IN THE SHADOW To film folk, a trailer is no place to was shot by Štěpán Kučera and direct- move into after a hurricane flattens ed by Martin Krejčí, a first-timer at I must recommend – primarily to international All My Good Countrymen screens your house – but that might make this prestigious and high-pressure job audiences – Vojtěch Jasný’s All My Good today in the Thermal’s Grand Hall a good subject for one, provided you who brings serious creds to the task – Countrymen. I suppose every Czech film fan has at 12:30pm and on July 3 at can cast a cool international star in it. he’s been honored at Cannes and feted seen it. I myself have seen it several times, and it 7:30pm in Lázně III. You can also No, dear readers, the trailer, or znělka, by big-time ad firm Saatchi & Saatchi always stayed on my mind for several days. With see A Touch of Sin today at the is the traditional short film that pre- for his past work. unbelievable accuracy, it describes the period of Thermal’s Cinema B at 9:30pm and cedes the main feature. The shorts incorporating most of the communist takeover in the former Czechoslovakia. on July 6 in the Karlovy Vary The KVIFF trailer is, of course, above headliners were created by It portrays the worst but also the best of human na- Theatre at 6:30pm. Ondříček’s In a provocative, funny, 1-2 minute Czech filmmaker Ivan Zachariáš, but ture. This epic movie has a tremendous moral mes- the Shadow screens on July 4 in the black-and-white send-up of celebrity this year Krejčí has brought his signa- sage, incredible acting by Vladimír Menšík, and Thermal’s Small Hall at 12:30pm. living, and for the past several years ture offbeat, over-the-top style to the fantastic camerawork by Jaroslav Kučera. has featured a glamorous personage film before the film. For those who Not all that glitters is gold and that’s how I see such as John Malkovich, Danny didn’t make it to the opening movie, some of the films that are selected for prestigious DeVito, Věra Chytilová, Jiří Menzel, telephone smasher, foot-crushing this adds a nice element of suspense to festivals. I hope this isn’t the case with the Chinese- Miloš Forman, Harvey Keitel, Jude blunt object, taxi conversation starter the burning question of what unimag- Japanese film A Touch of Sin. I really like Asia, Law, and Andy Garcia finding a new and magic glass for seeing through inable act audiences will see a celeb and the Asian mentality seldom leaves me cold. The and original use for their festival prize, women’s clothes. performing with a hefty statuette of storyline looks intriguing, and I really have to see the surprisingly handy Crystal Globe Each year christens a new trailer, and a nude nymphet hoisting a Moser crys- the film that shocked Cannes with its scenes of vi- award. Turns out it serves as a great the one that premiered last night stars tal orb. Make sure you get to your olence. y hood ornament, medicine grinder, last year’s honoree Helen Mirren. It screening early to find out! y (WT) strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Saturday, June 29, 2013

OFFICIAL SELECTION FACES HŘEBEJK’S KARLOVY VARY HONEYMOON

Zbyněk Vlasák Czech cinema is represented in the Official Selection by director Jan Hřebejk. Honeymoon’s starting point is simple; an uninvited guest, a friend from the bride- groom’s past, shows up at a wedding feast intending to spoil it for everyone else. Adam Oľha John Appel You say Honeymoon is the culmination of a loose trilogy, which began with Look out today for esteemed can spot Wiktoria Szymańska, Kawasaki’s Rose and Innocence... Italian director Paolo Sorrentino here for the docu-competition We only call it a trilogy to indicate what to who’s in town to personally pres- with puppeteer portrait The Man expect from Honeymoon – that it is a serious ent his latest work The Great Who Made Angels Fly. And from film, a psychological drama. Otherwise the Beauty as part of the Horizons the non-competing section we section. Joining him is another have John Appel, here with chill-

three films share nothing significant in com- Photo: KVIFF award-winning Italian Giorgio ing study of the Breivik murders mon. In fact Honeymoon is perhaps closer to Czech director Jan Hřebejk used Bergman as inspiration for his latest picture. Divided We Fall, which was screenwriter Diritti, here with There Will Wrong Time Wrong Place. Petr Jarchovský’s attempt to write a script cause he is also the co-producer of the whole too? For example, The Celebration is Come a Day. British legend of A young Slovak documentarist is based on a simple, straightforward story that movie and has his money in it, he wouldn’t based on a similar scheme... silent film accompaniment Neil also expected to arrive today, keep can be summed up in one or two sentences, let it fall through, but then we started pan- In these more recent films, which are of Brand, who’ll treat us to his an eye out for Adam Oľha, after he had written more episodic screen- icking. But in the end Jan Kadlec did find course excellent, there is a certain perversi- live piano interpretation of whose family portrait New Life of plays. In Divided We Fall and Honeymoon the ideal place. It looked exactly like his ty. You won’t find that in Bergman. His Hitchcock’s The Ring tomorrow. Family Album was selected for we wanted to get rid of all dramaturgical pencil drawing from nine months before. Autumn Sonata is about an ordinary rela- Dwein Baltazar is visiting all Czech Films 2012-2013. Here for tricks, playing with genres etc. Another new name is the seasoned edi- tionship between a mother and daughter, the way from the Philippines to the world premiere of Little Secret Honeymoon may deviate slightly from tor Alois Fišárek... things that take place in the lives of all of us, present her promising debut fea- we have local Martin Krejčí, your other work in that you worked with We tried to find inspiration in Bergman’s and nothing more. When some kind of ture Mamay Umeng at the Forum best known for his advertising some members of the crew for the first films from the 1970s, in his family dramas pathology comes up, it is a kind of patholo- of Independents. Also from far spots. Also look out for award time. One such example is architect Jan where most of the time the characters just sit gy “from the neighbors.” Autumn Sonata is afield we’ve got Canadian direc- winning Czech actress Gabriela Kadlec. Was it he who found the large in their chairs and talk. While watching them fantastically written and played – four years tor Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, Míčová, the lead in Garbage, The house where almost the whole story takes I found out something amazing: the movies before her death Ingrid Bergman pulled off here for the non-competing City and Death. place? don’t lack pace at all, they have great inner the best performance of her career. Official Selection with his debut Opening this year’s East of the For a long time, we had no idea where we tension. But how could one emulate that in Bergman’s films inspired us to conclude that feature Whitewash. He’s joined West competition with his feature would be shooting. His method is to first Honeymoon? The script was a challenge in we shouldn’t embellish Honeymoon any- by Ludwig Wüst, the writer, di- debut Miracle, respected Slovak make a drawing of what the house and its this respect, there were many long mono- where, that we should hold back and it will rector and producer of My documentary writer and director surroundings are supposed to look like – that logues – the longest one ended up being 11 be most impressive when the viewer thinks Father’s House which will Juraj Lehotský is expected to- he wants water here, a forest there, a field minutes. And this is where Alois Fišárek “This is what happened to me, too” or “This have its international premiere day. And last but not least, here. Then he finds an actual house that cor- helped us a great deal. He is a generation might have happened to me and I don’t even here tomorrow. Ready to compete Belgian artist, musician and oc- responds to it on the internet – for instance older than us; he has understanding for such know it.” in the main section with cult aficionado Shazzula is com- somewhere in the US Midwest. And then he things, but more importantly he has the September, Greek director Penny ing to town to promote Black cruises the Czech Republic with a photo of courage to let the monologue flow. Honeymoon screens today at 7:30pm in the Panayotopoulou is arriving to- Mass Rising, her two hour dark this and looks for a suitable location. But in Talking about Bergman and Thermal’s Grand Hall as well as tomorrow at day. psych trip filmed entirely on the case of Honeymoon he couldn’t find any- Scandinavia in general, did you look for 2pm in the Pupp Cinema and on July 2 at 9am A fresh crowd of documentary a cellphone, which was selected thing. First, we relied on the fact that, be- inspiration in any of the Dogme films, in the Drahomíra Cinema. y makers arrive today. See if you for the Imagina section. y (PLC) French Films OFFICIAL SELECTION on 48th Karlovy Vary SOURCES OF LIFE – A GNOMIC International Film HISTORY OF WEST GERMANY Festival

CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 Saturday / Sobota 29. 6. 13:30 / Pupp / 2P3 CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 (Bruno Dumont, 97 min) / H 13:30 / Lázně III / 2L2 EL MUERTO Y SER FELIZ / BÝT MRTEV A BÝT ŠŤASTNÝ (Javier Rebollo, 94 min) / AV 16:30 / Lázně III / 2L3 EPIZODA U ŽIVOTU BERAČA ŽELJEZA / EPIZODA ZE ŽIVOTA SBĚRAČE ŽELEZA (Danis Tanovic, 75 min) / H 16:30

/ Richmond / 2R3 Photo: KVIFF LA TENDRESSE / NĚHA (Marion Hänsel, 78 min) / AV Oskar Roehler’s main-competition film comprises three love stories spanning three generations. 18:30 / Thermal, Malý sál / 224 HUNGRY MAN / HLADOVÝ MUŽ (Philip Martin, 70 min) / FI Zbyněk Vlasák soon celebrate shifting 100,000 eventful 1970s, when hippies and 21:30 / Kino Čas / 2C5 units. Red Army Faction terrorists be- AU NOM DU FILS / VE JMÉNU SYNA (Vincent Lannoo, 80 min) / FI “A love story – told with a cer- He is helped by his son Klaus, come the byproduct of the West 22:30 / Kino Drahomíra / 2K9 TANGO LIBRE (Frédéric Fonteyne, 98 min) / H tain wit and profundity – is the an aspiring author (played by oc- German economic boom. And an- best way to depict the heritage, casional Stateside actor Moritz other romantic infatuation is the generation gaps, the desires, Bleibtreu). But Klaus, too, first again at the center of attention. pressures and later the political needs to fight for his love. All this By telling love stories, rendered Sunday / Neděle 30. 6. illusion that unites and disunites unfolds as the pressure of with an extraordinary romantic people in equal measure,” says Germany’s wartime legacy slow- sensitivity, Roehler has hit upon 09:30 / Thermal, Malý sál / 321 Oskar Roehler of his Sources of ly recedes into the background an interesting way of portraying THE CONGRESS / FUTUROLOGICKÝ KONGRES Life, which has its first screening and people no longer feel the the relatively short history of West (Ari Folman, 120 min) / H 10:00 today. His ambitious 174- need to behave themselves in or- Germany. He is not merely de- / Thermal, sál B / 351 minute movie, based on his der to make up for their parents’ picting it, however, but also offer- UROKI GARMONII / HODINY HARMONIE (Emir Baigazin, 110 min) / H 10:30 / Lázně III / 3L1 semi-autobiographical novel mistakes. Klaus marries Gisela, ing an ironic commentary by jux- AU NOM DU FILS / VE JMÉNU SYNA (Vincent Lannoo, 80 min) / FI Herkunft (Origin), recounts the only to realize with jealousy that taposing a former Nazi who 12:30 / Kino Čas / 3C2 saga of a German family that en- his wife is a much more gifted manufactures garden gnomes with HUNGRY MAN / HLADOVÝ MUŽ (Philip Martin, 70 min) / FI compasses the country’s post- writer than he is. She also refuses the comic spectacle of Robert’s 17:00 / Thermal, Velký sál / 317 war experience. It starts with to accept the patriarchal family schoolmate – two generations lat- 11.6 (Philippe Godeau, 102 min) / C Erich, a soldier devoted to model that Klaus sets so much er – assembling models of tanks 18:30 / Kino Čas / 3C4 Nazism, returning home, tooth- store by. while waxing lyrical about Third THE MAN WHO MADE ANGELS FLY / MARIONETISTA less and decrepit, several years Neither of them can assume the Reich officials. And no one taking (Wiktoria Szymańska, 64 min) / D after WWII. Immediately after role of a parent, their marriage him seriously... 21:30 / Thermal, sál B / 355 a cleansing shower and getting falls apart, and they both remain BLACK MASS RISING (Shazzula, 120 min) / I Sources of Life screens today 22:00 / Thermal, Kongresový sál / 338 hold of some dentures, he de- submerged in their own worlds SI TU MEURS, JE TE TUE / JESTLI UMŘEŠ, ZABIJU TĚ cides to win back his estranged for many years as the people a 3:30pm in the Thermal’s Grand (Hiner Saleem, 95 min) / FK 11.6 wife. And when he succeeds, he around them understand them Hall as well as tomorrow at 10am 22:30 / Lázně III / 3L5 establishes the first garden- less and less. in the Pupp Cinema and on July 2 TANGO LIBRE (Frédéric Fonteyne, 98 min) / H gnome factory in Germany. The latter part of the movie fol- at 11:30am in the Drahomíra Business booms and Erich can lows their son, Robert, during the Cinema. y

ANOTHER VIEW OF FORM AND CONTENT MY KV

Kadri Kõusaar Writer/director The Arbiter Photo: KVIFF Photo: KVIFF Intense drama on the high seas in Tobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking South Korean director Jeon Soo-il’s El Condor Pasa

Brian Kenety Roberto Minervini’s documentary-style survivor of a fishing boat accident that the story of an aging Quebecois farmer Texas trilogy, shot in single takes using has claimed five souls, including his (played beautifully by Gabriel Arcand) She was working as a waitress in a handheld camera and natural lighting, gregarious elder brother, Billy (played who is ready to sell his beloved home- a Bangkok tail bar – that much is true. is the minimalist yet engrossing story of by Conor McCarron, in flashback). Few stead to help out his daughters, one of You’re screening a new feature fol- But Karaoke Girl is a lyrical mix of fact a 14-year-old girl, Sara Carlson, who in the tightknit coastal community are whom is getting a divorce. lowing up on the success of the con- and fiction, a docudrama about a village has begun to question her family’s untouched by this tragedy. In mourning Tenderness, by Marion Hänsel, troversial Magnus, in which you cast girl sent to work in a factory who be- deeply held religious beliefs and shel- and struggling with survivor’s guilt, which had its world premiere at an Estonian man portraying his real- came an escort to support her family tered way of life. The cast consists Aaron is treated as a living ghost by Rotterdam, is another charming French- life role in his son’s suicide, right? back home. Newcomer Sa Sittijun plays largely of the Carlson family (with 12 children, and called a “Jonah” by the language family drama – and a road Yes, I’m here in Karlovy Vary for the in- herself in the title role of this debut fea- homeschooled children) and another men, a term sailors use for someone movie. Separated for 15 years, Lisa ternational premiere of my second film ture by Visra Vichit-Vadakan, a director- large rural family, all playing them- who brings bad luck. His inability to re- (Marilyne Canto) and Frans (Olivier The Arbiter, competing in the East of screenwriter whose short documentary selves in an unscripted yet directed nar- call the wreck further makes him the Gourmet) drive together from Brussels the West program. It's a dark and myste- rise was screened in competition at KV- rative. lightning rod for grief, expressed as to the French Alps to pick up their son, rious drama of a British professor's quest IFF three years ago. Sara appeared in Minervini’s The anger. who has been in a snowboarding acci- to make the world a better place. If the 29 films in the Another View Passage and her counterpart in this most The story unfolds in a weave of shots dent. They share more memories than What else is on your radar for a first sidebar have one thing in common, it’s recent film, Colby Trichell, was in his with a raw documentary feel to them, barbs along on the way. trip to KVIFF? that, like Karaoke Girl, they’re works Low Tide. While she reads scripture, with other scenes done in a conventional Premieres tomorrow include Chad My producer Aet Laigu and I are hav- by directors experimenting with form sinewy rodeo bull rider Colby comes narrative model, and at the end the Hartigan’s This is Martin Bonner, win- ing some meetings regarding our next and content, and whose latest films have from a family with a far less strict inter- viewer is left uncertain what is real, ner of the Sundance Audience Award projects: a thrilling Nordic love story been well received on the festival cir- pretation of the Bible and enjoys drink- imagined, or nautical myth come to life. for Best of NEXT; Leszek Dawid’s You based on a Scandinavian bestseller and cuit. Vichit-Vadakan’s story of a sex- ing beer. Their mutual attraction, driv- Wright won a Bafta for his 2010 short Are God, about a legendary Polish hip- an original story about a female journal- worker, beautifully shot in 35mm by en more by curiosity about their Until the River Runs Red, the main nar- hop group; Katrin Gebbe’s offbeat ist kidnapped in Egypt. veteran Hollywood cinematographer respective lifestyles than by hormones, rative of which was also interwoven tragedy Nothing Bad Can Happen You’ve had some writing stays in Sandi Sissel, may not be the most inno- is subtly stage-managed by the director. with faux grainy news clips and Super 8 (Germany); Tobias Lindholm’s intense Prague in recent years; any literary vative in the line-up. Yet, apart from Lines are also blurred in Scottish home videos. drama A Hijacking (Denmark); Maria riffs for you in west Bohemia? a few forced scenes depicting Sittijun’s director Paul Wright’s debut feature, Among the more character-driven Saakyan’s dreamlike coming-of-age Of course I'd like to get a feel for a gen- fictionalized romance, it’s a fresh ap- For Those in Peril, a haunting psy- and conventional of the Another tale I’m Going to Change My Name uine Karlovy Vary spa – preferably as proach to a genre notoriously difficult chodrama screened at Cannes as part of View pictures is Canadian director (Armenia); and two with religious traditional as it could be, so it's like en- to pull off. the Critics’ Week program. Village mis- Sébastien Pilote’s low-key drama Le themes: Jeon Soo-il’s El Condor Pasa tering some chapters of a Milan Kundera Stop the Pounding Heart, the final fit Aaron (in an exceptional perform- Démantèlement – which won a prize at (South Korea) and Giovanni Columbu’s book, feeling light and tense at the same installment of young Italian director ance by George MacKay) is the only Cannes, and showed at Sundance. It’s The King (Italy). y time. y (WT)

Anna Franklin, CRITIC’S CHOICE Editor-in-Chief Film New Europe (www.filmneweurope.com)

AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE This movie arrives in KV fresh OF AN IRON PICKER from its Silver Bear Grand Jury Director: Danis Tanović Prize win at this year’s Berlinale. Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Bosnian director Danis Tanović – Slovenia, 2013, 75 min whose No Man’s Land won the June 29, 4:30pm, Lazne III Oscar for best foreign-language film in 2001 – shot it in a few woman who nearly died because categorize, lying somewhere be- weeks after reading about the she was refused medical care. The tween documentary and fiction family of an uninsured Roma resulting movie is impossible to film. Not to be missed.

Directed by Mira Fornay, one of MY DOG KILLER Slovakia’s hottest young talents, Director: Mira Fornay My Dog Killer won the main Slovakia, Czech Republic, prize at Rotterdam this year and 2013, 90 min has had a very successful run at June 29, 8pm, Drahomíra Cinema international festivals. Made with non-professional actors, it follows Central European village where first feature Foxes, set in Dublin, apathetic 18-year-old Marek and anti-Roma racism is widespread. we get a chance to see the director his dog, Killer, in a dead-end After Fornay’s success with her at work on her home turf.

French films have a strong pres- CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 ence at KV this year. One of the Director: Bruno Dumont most interesting is Bruno France, 2013, 97 min Dumont’s Camille Claudel 1915, June 29, 1:30pm, Pupp Cinema which screened in competition at the 2013 Berlinale. It stars Juliette Binoche as the tragically gifted Rodin eventually drives her to from Binoche, and plenty of turn-of-the-century sculptress, madness. This is a film that offers Dumont’s characteristically sen- whose long affair with Auguste fine performances, especially sitive direction.

Russian directors Natasha INTIMATE PARTS Merkulova and Alexey Chupov Directors: Natasha Merkulova, have teamed up for their debut Alexey Chupov feature Intimate Parts, an erotic Russia, 2013, 80 min drama set in Moscow. The story June 29, 4pm, Karlovy Vary Theatre takes an ironic look at how present day people handle secrets. Muscovites dealing with univer- award-winning film also gives us Scripted by the directors, it has sal questions such as happiness, an interesting look at contempo- a multi-linear plot involving fulfillment, secrecy, and sex. This rary urban Russian society. y

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Peter Le Couteur leagues if they can recommend Gaydos founded the Critics’ ative,” amoral provocateur Batko entails. Expect troublingly realis- job, sparking a semiautobio- some films by upcoming Choice (as the sidebar was then starts his own network of inform- tic crudity, drunkenness, bribery graphical small-town soul search. Through 16 years’ stalwart fes- European filmmakers... Since known) in the same year. ants, opening the lid on the web and institutional rot on a stagger- Half road trip, half social history, tival service, Variety’s Ten Euro most of my reviewing is out of We find ourselves in Georgia of social complicity underlying ing scale. Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart Directors to Watch has become Europe, I also have some ideas. for In Bloom, witnessing the end totalitarian systems. Ever popular with younger follows a musician and his son as a “very trusted brand” among Then I watch lots and lots of of childhood for two 13-year-old Sociopathic antiheroes are fans, Variety’s midnight selection they search for roots, replete with KVIFF audiences, says Alissa DVDs.” (Simon certainly does girls after the 1992 restoration of clearly “in” this year, with for this year is “ultra-cool” in a rousing soundtrack by Simon, who has curated the sec- watch lots of DVDs, being senior independence. Their stormy Greece’s The Eternal Return of Simon’s opinion. Roar Uthaug is Finnish/Swedish immigrants. tion since taking over from programmer for the Palm Springs friendship helps them navigate Antonis Paraskevas coming back back with Escape, more Meanwhile in Rome, classy Variety’s European senior film IFF besides working as a critic.) the advances of various unsuit- to KV fully formed after its Norwegian adrenaline to follow Audrey Tautou-esque NINA critic Derek Elley in 2010. This year’s selection charts the able suitors, one of whom be- Works in Progress win last year. up on his hit slasher Cold Prey, combats her anxious isolation “Last year we were thrilled that margins of Europe, including queaths the bolder girl a pistol Debut writer/director Elina which was part of the KVIFF among ostentatiously stylish cin- a film from the Variety section three films from Scandinavia, with single bullet to protect her Psykou tells a tale of celebrity Midnight Screenings in 2007. ematography with more than won the Audience Award. one from Poland, one from honor. A lot of cinematic talent is desperation and media manipula- This medieval thriller features the a nod to the1960s with its cellos, Imagine! It usually goes to a film Bulgaria, and for the first time emerging from Georgia at the tion as an ageing talk show host unsettlingly feral blondeness of polka dots and wall-to-wall sun- that plays in the Great Hall... We a film from Georgia (though with moment, and debut writer and orchestrates his own kidnapping Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, already shine in a mysteriously empty also had three other titles in the footholds in France and co-director Nana Ekvtimishvili story from an empty hotel. snapped up by Hollywood as the summertime capital. Flemish top ten of the audience vote.” Germany). The Variety section is isn’t lacking. Continuing in the underbelly perfect baddie for this year’s love is more meller, with a full- It’s not often the tastes of pro- run in collaboration with According to Simon, vein, Polish writer/director Hansel and Gretel schlock. on tissuefest set to bluegrass fessional critics and the festival European Film Promotion (EFP), Bulgaria’s offering “has cult film Wojtek Smarzowski takes us Variety’s other two strains in The Broken Circle public neatly coincide and if last and Georgia is a brand new mem- written all over it;” The Color of down into the dark world of Scandinavian picks this year are Breakdown. Deeper into the year’s results are anything to go ber. Founded in 1997, EFP is the Chameleon is a night-black Warsaw police corruption in more subtle, each limning the life Netherlands, the arrival of by, Variety has its finger firmly a unique network of organiza- comedy about the fall of commu- Traffic Department. This is of a segregated social group in a Teutonic Adonis precipitates on the pulse. Their selection tions promoting and marketing nism, based on screenwriter a rare fusion of genre flick, social Sweden. In Gabriela Pichler’s The Deflowering of Eva van process is fluid, intuitive and so- European film, and was the per- Vladislav Todorov’s novel commentary and $6 million do- award-grabbing debut Eat Sleep End with spot-on color and cial, Simon says. “To start out, fect partner for the section when Zincograph. Dismissed from the mestic box office success, with Die, gutsy Bosnian immigrant camera giving a knowing nod to I ask my Variety reviewer col- Variety’s executive editor Steve secret police for being too “cre- all the violence and mayhem that Raša is laid off from her factory Todd Solondz. y ON THE TOWN EVENTS

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1/ So many films, so little time...

2/ KVIFF President Jiří Bartoška with Borderline film actor Brady Corbet

3/ Crystal Globe recipient John Travolta sure knows how to work a crowd. Photo: Jan Handrejch Photo: Jan Handrejch Photo: Jan Handrejch