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Friday, July 6, 2012 free • strana / page 1 Casey Walker on the day DIVÁCKÁ CENA / AUDIENCE AWARD Tomorrow’s program Moonrise Kingdom perils of crowdfunding starlet Kara Hayward DENÍKU Vote for the best film of the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival! strana/page 6, 7, 8 strana/page 3 8 strana/page 4 strana/page 2 THE LOWDOWN Yes, we’re many days into Women love attention the fest-madness now (who knows quite how many?) and things are starting to get weird. Leila Hatami on breaking stereotypes and finding the real Iran First, there’s the story of the Will Tizard very young. I think women love things like disappearing chef in a certain that. To attract their man’s attention. Indian restaurant in town. The n And is that what’s motivating your Lowdown arrived, eager and Leila Hatami, the Iranian actress who character to make all this trouble in The innocent, and was shown to starred in that country’s first Oscar-win- a table. A little later the menus A Separation Last Step? ning film, (which screened I think in this film it is not even for that. arrived, and we made some last year at KVIFF) is here with Crystal She didn’t decide this. There isn’t even choices, dreaming of a curry to Globe contender The Last Step, directed a plan. Suddenly, she wants to make her- replace some of the nutrients and written by her husband, Ali Mosaffa. self important. She does but she didn’t plan lost during the hours we spend Now her country’s most iconic face, Hata- for it. cloistered in a windowless mi grew up in a family that had cinema in n You have said that you see Iranian cell, deep within the bowels of its blood and appeared as a child in films film undergoing a kind of renaissance the Thermal. But a little under by her father. Despite international star- currently. What do you think is driving half an hour later, the waitress dom, the former electrical engineering stu- this? returned with the dreadful dent says her work as an actress when at It’s not only now. I don’t want to say it is news that the kitchen was home hasn’t changed all that much – and better – I want to say it is more varied. Be- closed. Weak with fatigue, we she seems content to keep it that way. cause years ago, for example, we only had had no choice but to stay at the table, attempting to nourish n Your husband made a quip that one stereotype that we thought is very nice ourselves with the unparalleled having you as his leading lady meant for the world, the foreign world. It is exot- fruits of the local breweries. that, for the first time, he could count ic. We kept doing this. We didn’t have this, Several beers later, the waitress on his actress to actually do what he maybe, courage to do, to experience, dif- returned and told us the wanted. ferent things. kitchen was open again! Either (Laughs) I’m always like that. When n But the films within Iran’s borders they really liked us, or the chef I play, I listen to the director. Probably, I’m were surely more varied and interesting had left the kitchen for some under his command. than the ones that are exported. kind of clandestine activity. n You often play a Leila in your films We did have the courage inside. But Other, more nefarious deal- – what is the difference between the I think after this success of A Separation – ings were behind our narrow Leila we see on screen and the one sit- already before, I can say, inside the country escape later in the evening. We ting here now? there was a new generation of directors (I’m stepped out of Shaffy’s and In fact, in this film, this is Leili. I played not talking about my husband – I’ll put him straight into crime noir. With a lot of Leilas, this is true. But this time it’s aside because his first film was eight years the neon and the full moon Leili. And the difference between Leila and ago). But what I meant and am talking about shining, we crossed the narrow Leili in our culture is a bit subtle because is, about five years ago, a lot of the young street a split-second before Leila is a common name. But Leili is much generation didn’t consider, for example, just a silver BMW, screaming more sophisticated. It is reserved for well- one or two artists. And all of them respect along at over a hundred, raced to-do families. Not necessarily rich, but basic and fundamental techniques of film- past in the direction of the with a good background. And it is one of making. This, for me, is new as an actress. Thermal, closely followed by the characters in our poems, a love story Years ago it was not at all like that. the flashing lights of KV’s from the sixth century. So Leili is the sym- n How does this differ from how it finest. Evidence mounts for an bol of a nice, young woman whom some- used to be? So there were fewer direc- illegal moonlit KV street rac- body’s in love with. tors and they were perhaps more like ing gang, playing for pink n The deep roots of Persian culture moguls? slips along the cobblestones in really still color what we see in its films, You had an artist in front of you as a di- the dead of night. Which don’t they, in terms of non-linear stories rector but otherwise he was really nothing. would explain the pigeon or dream-like realities? So Leili also You couldn’t do a film with him. But now blackspot at the bottom of T.G. shows us something of that? it is much more like in the States, for ex- Masaryka. There’s a fresh And Leili is Iranian. Leila is an Arabic ample. You can play a role with a nice
Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: corpse there every morning, name but Leili, because it was in literature, script, with a first-time, beginning director. and if they’re not getting mown it is considered much more Iranian. Iranian actress Leila Hatami, who appears in The Last Step. They have the technical knowledge and al- down by souped-up Midnight n So then what were the parts of the so they are adult enough to manage a film. Club muscle cars, we can only character that were most challenging or this nothing, it costs a lot and it becomes a lot, those things. For example, I sent n And what is it that you most want surmise that it’s either appealing for you? very serious. And maybe it costs a life. But a very beautiful bouquet of roses for my- the world to know about Iran – or a Bermuda Triangle-style con- What I liked in this character was that she lies for nothing. Like that. self. And I just mentioned nothing. But the maybe Iranian film? fluence of mysterious energies, she lies. This is very true and you don’t see n Why do you think she lies so easily? people around be were thinking it could be If people can find the quality films, they or an avine serial killer. n it in a lot of films. To lie for nothing. But Women do this. I remember that I did it a lover…but it was me. And I was really can find the real Iran. n
SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER Simon Perry Graphic art, handbags, and gladrags If your movie-worn eyes are featuring original hand-tinted Chairman, Ateliers du Cinéma Européen crying out for art of the still kind, photographs. (Open daily from KV offers several options and, of 9am to 7pm. Entry free.) I wasn't here for the opening of the festival so course, Czech artists are among The Museum of Karlovy I want to catch Good Vibrations before I leave. I love the finest in the world. The Vary (Nová Louka 23) has some- stories that depict the behavior of ordinary people in Karlovy Vary Art Gallery (at thing a little bit different at the extraordinary, extreme situations − particularly ordi- Goethova stezka 6) is well worth moment – A Symphony of nary people caught up in war, which are so much a visit. The permanent exhibition Handbags. This is a small but more telling than stories of soldiers and battles. In houses an extensive collection of representative collection of the this case the ordinary person is a young man who de- Czech 20th century art. Current beaded and embroidered bags cides he is not going to let the Troubles in Northern exhibitions feature work by that well-bred ladies would carry Ireland interrupt the daily life of the record shop he renowned Czech graphic artists to evening events in the 19th and owns in the middle of his constantly bombed home Jiří Slíva and Zdeněk Ziegler early 20th centuries. city, Belfast. While I was running the Irish Film (one of whose film posters is pic- There are not only handbags Board we provided financial support for the project, tured) and 20 puppets made by but also beaded costume jewelry which is directed by a young couple who work to- master Czech animator Jiří gether and who did decent work before. Good Vibra- and evening wear, helpfully tions has been made since I left Ireland and I hear it's Trnka. (Opening hours Tue-Sun, arranged on human-shaped mir- turned out well. I'm excited to go and see it, particu- 10am-5pm.) Entry costs 40 CZK rors so you can visualize yourself larly without the terrorism of a dress code. for the current exhibitions on the troversial master art photogra- bedecked in the finery. Entry ground floor and 40 CZK for the pher Jan Saudek at the Lázně III costs 60 CZK. The exhibition is Good Vibrations screens today at 7pm in the permanent exhibitions on the first spa building (Mlýnské nábřeží 5), open every day during the film floor (www.galeriekvary.cz). festival from 9am to 5pm. Thermal’s Congress Hall. (WT) Milan Malíček Photo: which is hosting a free exhibition Get a great introduction to con- called ...the best of Jan Saudek, (www.kvmuz.cz) (GP)
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The 7th Prague Short Film Festival took place in January this year. Five films from that fes- tival have been selected for screening in a block at KVIFF under the heading Prague Short Film Festival Presents (with the final screening scheduled for to- day at 4pm in the Husovka The- ater). “Short films were always the audience favorites at Karlovy Vary,” says KVIFF President Jiří Bartoška in a statement on Photo: KVIFF the Prague Shorts website The only non-gay in the village – German animated short Flamingo Pride. (www.pragueshorts.com). “Seven years ago, we decided they de- Gillian Purves films at Fresh Film Fest but German student film Crooks served their own festival. We are a showcase of very good student takes us down an absurd path. pleased the previous six Prague Fresh Selection – The Promis- films from the past year,” says A bunch of gangsters are on Short Film Festivals have proven ing Five gives Karlovy Vary audi- Weiserová. a quest but they are not really get- us right and we are happy the ences a taste of what student films Flamingo Pride is a 3D animat- ting anywhere. Surreal imagery event has found its place among Photo: KVIFF have to offer with a block of five ed short from Germany about the makes this a standout piece. The Czech film festivals.” Prague Short Film Festival winner Aglaée. shorts, which can be seen today at only straight flamingo in a gay film was entered in the main com- This year the Main Prize at the 10pm in the Espace Dorleans Cin- flock, who falls for a beautiful petition at the International Short Prague Short Film Festival and guage, a poetry of magical mo- film for the director Behrouz ema. Radka Weiserová, director of lady stork. As you can imagine, Film Festival in Oberhausen. 5,000 EUR went to Aglaée by ments that reveal a multilayered Bigdeli, who made it according to the Fresh Film Fest, says, “Nine or it’s a lot of fun and very colorful. Guerrillera is a British produc- French director Rudi Rosenberg. story about a child’s kidnapping.” his experiences when he was ten years ago the student film pro- The “crowd scenes” of the flamin- tion with a simple concept and “It’s about a girl who has some “Killing the Chickens to Scare young, and it’s very well done,” gram was a regular part of the goes living their lives to the full at a strong message. As an unseen physical problems and she’s kind the Monkeys is a very well-con- says Purkrábková. Exceptionally, Karlovy Vary International Film a non-stop beach party brimful woman gets on with her job clean- of bullied in her high school,” says structed film about political this year a third special jury men- Festival and then some friends with gay-scene clichés are espe- ing a skyscraper at night, we listen Anna Purkrábková from the killings in China,” says tion was awarded to this film for from the FAMU film school de- cially impressive. to her recount the story of her past KVIFF program department. “On Purkrábková. “The story is told its excellent direction. cided not to organize it within KV- Nothing Can Touch Me, a half- as a guerilla fighter in Colombia. the one hand it’s quite a sad film backwards. So you are starting Love at First Sight starring IFF anymore and they founded the hour production from Denmark, Atmospheric French short On and on the other it’s funny and with the very end of the story and John Hurt and Phyllida Law is set Fresh Film Fest of student films, focuses on a girl who witnesses Tracks introduces us to a night very optimistic.” The film features at the end of the film you find out in a retirement home in England. and nowadays of first and second a shooting at her school. As the watchman and his canine sidekick. strong performances by its cast of what happened at the beginning of The film won the Audience Award features as well.” film progresses she comes to real- This slick, tightly edited piece will teenagers. the story. Even though the film is at the Prague Short Film Festival The Fresh Selection at KVIFF ize she has more in common with keep you on the edge of your seat Until the River Runs Red, from short, it’s very disturbing and and it was shortlisted for the Best highlights five promising direc- the perpetrator of the killings than right up to the surprise conclusion. the United Kingdom, takes an un- hard-hitting.” The jury gave the Short Film Oscar. “It’s about love tors, as recommended by Fresh with the victims. We explore the settling look at abduction and re- film a special mention, noting its at every age,” says Purkrábková, Film Fest organizers. “The selec- darkest recesses of the teenage The Fresh Film Fest Interna- ligious fanaticism. It received retrospective style of storytelling “you can find love any time.” tion is made up of films that have mind in this gripping psychologi- tional Festival of First Features a special mention in Prague. The and its ethical message. These five films represent been selected for festivals in the cal thriller. The film won the main and Student Films runs from Aug. jury stated that the film represents To All My Friends is about a strong collection of works that past or that have been awarded, so prize in its section (best student 29 to Sept. 2, 2012, in Prague “an original and innovative piece young Danish punks Mark and may be short in length but are not this is not a showcase of future short film) at the Cleveland IFF. (www.freshfilmfest.net). n of filmmaking, unusual film lan- Sonny. “It was a very personal short on quality or style. n
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Guilherme Aguilar Ondřej Ježek Gabriella Hámori Bojan Lazarov Tomáš Řehořek Richard Řeřicha Well, we’re nearing the end of bers, and well-known Czech ac- actress Gabriella Hámori (The another KVIFF, but there are still tor Marek Daniel, who appears Exam) and actor Bojan Lazarov lots of people to look out for in both Polski film and Long Live (Death of a Man in Balkans). You Najdete ve around the town. These include the Family!. Also in town is should also keep an eye out for festivalovém Guilherme Aguilar, one half of Czech composer Ondřej Ježek, Czech directors Tomáš Řehořek obchodě! the writing and directing team be- (Alois Nebel). (Signal) and Richard Řeřicha hind Brazilian documentary Bar- You may also see Hungarian (DONT STOP). n Czech, please! Like all rich and venerable languages, Czech has no shortage of sonorous and pithy sayings and expressions. Some are instantly recognizable in English; others take a bit of working out. Here’s a few common truisms: Neříkej hop, dokud nepřeskočíš (neh-shreekay hop doe-kud nep-shreh-skotch-eesh) – Don’t count your chick- ens before they’re hatched (lit. Don’t say hop before you jump over [a hurdle]) Tak dlouho se chodí se džbánem pro vodu, až se ucho utrhne (tak dlo-ho se khoe-dee seh dzh-ban-em pro voe-doo azh se ookho oo-tr-hneh) − Something’s got to give (lit. If you keep going to get water with a jug, the han- dle will break) Kdo se směje naposled, ten se směje nejlépe (gdo seh smyay-yeh na-poe-sled ten se smyay-yeh nay-lepeh) − He who laughs last, laughs longest (lit. He who laughs last, laughs best) Ráno moudřejší večera (rahno mode-ray-shee vetchera) − It’s best to sleep on it (lit. The morning is wiser than the evening) 290Kč Nač stahovat kalhoty, když brod je ještě daleko? (natch sta-hovaht kalhotty gdeesh brod ye yesht-yeh dahl-ekho) − We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it (lit. What are you taking your trousers off for when the ford is still far away?) Kdo se bojí, nesmí do lesa (gdoh se boy-ee nehsmee doe les-ah) − Fortune favors the brave (He who is afraid can- not go to the forest) Bez práce nejsou koláče (bez prah-tse nay-so kolatch-eh) − No pain, no gain (lit. No work, no cake) Bez peněz do hospody nelez (bez penyez do hos-poe-dee neh-lez) − No mon, no fun (lit. You can’t go to the pub without money) Darovanému koni na zuby nehleď (dar-ovan-ay-moo konee na zoobee neh-led) − Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth (lit. at the teeth) Hlad je nejlepší kuchař (hlad yeh nay-lep-shee kookahrsh) − Hunger is the best sauce (lit. Hunger is the best cook) Jablko nepadá daleko od stromu (yabble-koe neh-pad-ah dahl-ekho od stromoo) − The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree Kdo dřív přijde, ten dřív mele (gdo dshreeve pshree-deh ten dshreeve mel-eh) − First come, first served (lit. He who comes first, has his grain milled first) Kolik řečí umíš, tolikrát jsi člověkem (kolik shretchee oom-eesh tolik-kraht see tch-lo-vyek-em) − How many languages you speak is how many times you are a human being Lež má krátké nohy (lez mah kraht-kee noe-hee) − The truth will out (lit. A lie has short legs) Mluviti stříbro, mlčeti zlato (mlooveetee st-srhee-bro miltch-etee zla-toe) − Speech is silver, silence is golden Vrána k vráně sedá (vrah-nah kuh vrah-nyeh se-dah) − Birds of a feather flock together (lit. A crow will sit with a crow) www.terryhoponozky.cz Zabít dvě mouchy jednou ranou (za-beet dvyeh mouky yedno ranno) − To kill two birds with one stone (lit. To kill two flies with one blow) (COC/PH)
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WHAT AM I DOING HERE? Crowdfunding nearly put me in jail! Frédéric Boyer Jaroslav Švelch become a whole other beast with Artistic Director, Tribeca Film Festival Kickstarter and all this other stuff. Les Arcs European Film Festival Canadian director Casey Walker They’ve really come down to perfect- France wanted to make his comedy about ing it as a business, whereas I only n Is this your a young man bitten by a zombie at all wanted to make a film. I didn’t want first time here? costs. The producers didn’t believe in to change the world, I just wanted to This is my him, so he decided to collect money make a movie! I actually almost went fourth time in from ordinary people through his to jail because of crowdfunding... Karlovy Vary and website. That happened back in 2006 n What happened? when no one knew the word crowd- My country’s government was very I really love this funding and Facebook was still pret- curious and inquisitive about what we place. First there ty much a student network. Walker is were doing and they wanted me to is a very young really thorough in communicating stop while they investigated. I refused audience, which with his fans. He even asked us to because we had momentum and peo- is great. They send him the photos as well as the ple around the planet helping us. I was love movies. digital version of the Festival Daily. two days away from jail because They want the They’re going straight on to Face- I wouldn’t take the site down. We fi- “food of film;” book. nally reached a compromise...In some they want to eat ways, I wanted to go to jail because it movies. They n You were one of the first direc- was good press! But we had a slow- want to discuss tors to get financing for his film us- down and almost a stop because of film and it’s ing crowdfunding... that. It really hurt our momentum. great. There are I was the first! I launched my web- n Now that you’ve completed the a lot of professionals. So if you want to meet people site in 2006. Within a few months film, what happens next? from the region it’s very helpful − Czechs, Slovaks, there were several others, the guys We sell it. Canada and North Amer- I’ve even met people from Turkey and Romania. from Iron Sky got theirs going. There ica sold very fast. We’re just starting was an art project out of San Francis- n Do you have many dealings with KVIFF’s to get attention here in Europe and co that started one. I think we all had programmers? Asia. I was slow applying to festivals the same growing pains. I met [Iron Casey Walker used social media to help fund . I think the programmers are the same type of fam- A Little Bit Zombie in those parts of the world because I’m Sky director] Timo [Vuorenseola] here ily, so they are helping me, supporting me. I’m sup- a one-man show. There’s me doing for the first time. We’ve talked online ing but they didn’t make it. Maybe I’ll comment, some don’t but at least half porting them...It’s the sharing of our tastes. This is everything – applications, DVDs, for the last six years but we’ve never see them in Prague. of our fanbase watches every video. good here with [KVIFF Artistic Director] Karel packaging, sending it out...North met face to face. People at the party n You did a good job communi- Facebook’s a strange beast, but every- Och’s selection because he is bringing a part of him- America blew up really fast. We were we met at wanted to know about cating with fans via Facebook, etc. thing’s interesting to somebody. self to the festival. A good festival has to have some- in 15 festivals just like that! Karlovy crowdfunding... The last thing we Was it hard to come up with stuff to There’s always somebody who’s go- one at the head of the festival who is able to bring Vary’s our European premiere but then wanted to talk about together was that! tell them? ing to watch something. I don’t try a part of his personality to the event. we’re off [to other places]. Now, Eu- Whenever you try something different No, actually, because there’s some- and make everyone happy all the time, ropean sales agents are asking for n And who else are you talking to? or new, it can be difficult. But it thing happening all the time. Here, but I try and always be giving people screeners, because they realize that if I really think this festival brings a lot of very in- worked. We didn’t raise a lot of mon- I’m just doing little videos walking something. festivals are willing to program it, then teresting guests. For example, we had a really inter- ey, but we raised a fair amount and it’s around. I was very impressed last n So are you thinking about there’s an audience that’s going to esting panel about low-budget [movies] and the Is- what helped us get the funding start- night when we had our European pre- crowdfunding your next project? want to see it...Once we sell it, I give raeli film Room 514, which also screened at Tribeca ed. The most important part about it is miere, which is a big deal, and the the- No! [laughs] I want to try and en- everyone their money back! and was made for 80,000 dollars. So it’s interesting that it started to build our audience. ater is full with 200 other people lined gage the fans and an audience on the for young people, students, and even professionals We’re in 26 countries now. Even in the up. It’s very easy to take that as con- same level, but I don’t necessarily You can see the fruits of Casey to hear about a new way to do things. Festivals are first months we had people from the tent and say “Hey everyone! I’m here. want them to come on for the money. Walker’s crowdfunding efforts, A Lit- important. It’s important for us all to stick together Czech Republic buy in too. I was hop- Look what’s happening!” And people I’m still wrapping my head around tle Bit Zombie, at midnight tonight in a good way. Film festivals unite! (COC) ing to see them last night at the screen- engage and react to that. Some people how it will work. Since I started, it’s in the Thermal’s Small Hall. n
REVIEWERS RECOMMEND Nick Holdsworth, Eastern Europe Bureau Chief, Variety
Jeff, Who Lives at Home Directors: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass USA, 2011, 83 min July 6, 5pm, Grand Hall − Thermal KV is, perhaps, at its most comfortable when programming quirky, won- derful American indie movies. Here’s your chance to see a classic-to-be. Starring the splendid Susan Sarandon and Jason Segel as the hapless moth- er’s 30-something-and-still-living-at-home son (title’s a bit of a giveaway, eh?!), the movie might make uncomfortable viewing for some of the not-yet-done-with-school “kids” who flock to KV every year. And for long-suffering girlfriends for those sorts of chaps the film offers redemption: a chance outing from Jeff’s basement lair leads to the change he really needs – if only he knew it. Clip Director: Maja Miloš Serbia, 2012, 102 min July 6, 10pm, Congress Hall − Thermal Serbian director Maja Miloš’s’ frank portrayal of a lost post-war genera- tion in search of itself draws on her own experiences of life after civil war. Jasna, the film’s heroine (perhaps anti-heroine is more apt), is a beauty from the deep provinces who escapes boredom and disillusion by im- mersing herself in the amorphous world of drugs, alcohol, and parties. As she spirals out of control and breaks taboo after taboo Jasna somehow manages to come to terms with herself through the maelstrom of experiences that shape Serbia’s new reality. A bold debut from a bright new Serbian talent. Lidice Director: Petr Nikolaev Czech Republic, 2011, 123 min July 6, 10:30am, Lázně III Cinema The banality of evil is at the heart of the story of Lidice – the Czech min- ing village near Prague razed to the ground by the Nazis in 1942 in reprisal for the assassination of the Reichsprotektor, SS General Reinhard Hey- drich. Starring Karl Roden – one of those Czech actors as comfortable in local movies as international – this is a powerful indictment of war and the casual, careless connections that lead to unspeakable acts. Told through the small details of the lives of ordinary people and focusing on the one man to survive the tragedy, the film closes with uplifting credits that include photos of people the world over named for, or associated with Lidice. Hell Director: Tim Fehlbaum Germany, Switzerland, 2011, 86 min July 6, 10pm, Drahomíra Cinema Swiss-born director Tim Fehlbaum always wanted to make a post-apoca- lyptic movie and right after film school in Munich he got his chance. Hell – which means “light” in German – is set in a world where the sun shines hellishly hot and bright and water is at a premium. As a small group of people move to the uplands in search of life sustaining liquids, all hell breaks out. Shot in leached tones that often border on black and white, this is a roller coaster of a movie best seen just before bedtime. n
[email protected] FESTIVAL DAILY THE OFFICIAL ENGLISH DAILY OF THE 47TH KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL STRANA / PAGE 4 FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012 Moonrise Kingdom starlet takes a bow Kateřina Kadlecová n Who’s your idol when it comes to acting? You really remind me of Na- Debut starlet Kara Hayward talked to talie Portman, because she’s super in- the Festival Daily about how she came to telligent as well, she started young... be in a Wes Anderson film, her time on I would say there are two young set, and her plans for the future. women who I look up to when it comes to acting, Emma Stone and Emma Wat- n Moonrise Kingdom was great, it son, because they’re both very intelligent, got a lot of applause. I wanted to ask they’re very humorous, and they’re such you, how did you decide to become an talented actresses. They’ve learned to actress? balance everything that they love, Well, it all started when I went to this whether it be school or acting, they’ve little summer camp; the kids there wrote learned to balance it all. I find that to be and performed a play, and so I decided to quite a talent. I think Emma Watson went be part of that. I enjoyed it so much that to Brown... I decided to go back the next year, and n Your character Suzy loves read- a year after that my dance teacher men- ing, do you love reading as well? tioned that there was an open call going Yes, I do love reading! I gobble up out for Moonrise Kingdom for my role. books, really anything that’s put in front So I figured I’d give it a shot, head down of me I’ll read and re-read. I have so there to get the experience. And after much fun really immersing myself in the I auditioned at the open call, they said, world that the author creates. I feel like, “Would you like to meet Wes Ander- in acting, it has a bit of a similarity be- son?” So they brought me in to meet cause you also have to immerse yourself Wes, we did a quick reading, and about in the world that the director creates. So a week later they called and said I had the there’s a little similarity there. job. n Do you also steal books from pub- n And you knew his films already? lic libraries? You’d seen The Darjeeling Limited? I try not to. I had seen Darjeeling, The Royal n How did you pick the books that Tenenbaums and Fantastic Mr. Fox, and were in the suitcase you ran away they were all amazing films, it was very with? Photo: Jan Handrejch exciting to learn that I was going to work Wes picked them; he wrote the book with the man who made those. He is so Emerging teen actor and MENSA member Kara Hayward. titles and had someone draw the covers. brilliant, and kind, and really it’s amaz- They weren’t actual books. It was all his ing the way he can just visualize these ray and Fran McDormand. Bill is hyster- directed by Noah Gershman, and it’s this n Then you go to Harvard or Yale and the artist that he had, it was all their ideas, put them into such a fantastic sto- ical, everyone’s always laughing when funny, quirky indie film that centers right? What would you like to major creativity that went into it. And really, ry, and then bring it to life so vividly. he’s around. He really brightens up around two friends played by two actors in? you wanted to read it. I picked one up n Can you relate to the 1960s, or everyone’s day. Fran is so sweet and that I’m very excited to work with, Mark I’m not quite sure what I want to ma- because the first time I saw them scouting, or the other themes in the wonderful. Webber and Jason Ritter. jor in. I do know that I want to continue I thought that maybe they were real. So movie? n Do you have any other projects in n I read somewhere that you’ve acting. And I think one day in the future I picked it up and I flicked open to the The costumes and the sets are just so mind? been a MENSA member since you I think I would also like to write, and first page and then I realized it was just detailed that you really do feel like it’s Well I have two projects coming up. were nine years old? maybe direct. another book! something from another time period. It’s I have one called Mixtape that’s going to I just wanted to become a MENSA n And you’re already a published n And do you have a favorite? quite amazing. And it really does make be directed by Tom Vaughan. It’s about member because I wanted to know that poet? What do you write about? My favorite, I would have to say, you feel that you have some sort of rela- this young girl who discovers a mix tape I could do it. I wanted to make sure I had Anything that inspires me I will write would probably be Bram Stoker’s Drac- tion to the film. full of songs that her mother, who had the ability to do this, and apparently I did, about, that will cause me to have some ula. It’s a classic, I love that book. The n Did you build a special relation- died before she’d really gotten old so I was accepted. You just have to have kind of creative vision. I did write a few old-timey feel of the words really helps ship with Bill Murray? enough to get to know her, had left. My some sort of proof that you are in, I be- little things during the shooting of Moon- you feel like you’re in that setting, in that I did get to work closely with Bill Mur- other one is called The Last Good Car, lieve, the top two percent. rise Kingdom... time period. n
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Photo: Jan Handrejch Photo: Jan Handrejch Photo: KVIFF A 3D beach and a 2D ocean at Karlovy Vary-on-Sea. Susan Sarandon meets KVIFF president Jiří Bartoška. An afternoon of music and fun in aid of the Jedlička Institute.