ENGLISH SECTION Festival Daily SPECIAL EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL ENGLISH DAILY OF THE 45TH KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Thursday, July 8, 2010 free • page 1 ENG day Bilingual program The best cinema East Renowned French film DIVÁCKÁ CENA / AUDIENCE AWARD for tomorrow DENÍKU of the West critic Michel Ciment Vote for the best film of the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival! (Czech Section: pages 6, 7, 8) page 2 7 page 4 (Czech Section: page 2) THE LOWDOWN It’s a challenge to play myself KVIFF is a pretty huge fes- tival, and can be quite over- whelming for newcomers. But The “girl from Pulp Fiction” is a child of the revolution not for a certain affable Slovak named Tibor, who Honza Dědek tell that story. We lived in Vienna sauntered into a crowded because my dad is a musician and screening of The Red Shoes at he was at the academy there. But the weekend with a borrowed Portuguese actor and singer we were also there because there festival pass and looked Maria de Medeiros, at KVIFF to was a terrible dictatorship in around for a seat to watch his Hitler in Hollywood present , Portugal and we were very much first festival film. Seeing a film mainly driven by her own aware of that. a couple of empty chairs at the indomitable character, admits After the revolution the family front, he went to sit down… loving strange scripts and auteur came back to Portugal, and my only to be scolded by festival films – a fact proven by her first reaction was, “Oh, my god. staff who told him the seat incredible portfolio of perform- This is such confusion, such was reserved for legendary ances in over 90 productions in chaos.” I was like a little Austrian editor Thelma Schoonmaker a handful of languages. girl who wanted to go back to and “šup-šupped” him away. Austria. But then as one or two Unperturbed, he looked I Hitler in Hollywood is not years passed, I realized how around and saw another free really fiction, or a genre film. incredible it had been to live spot a few rows back. It’s something else entirely through a real revolution in my Moving to sit down, he was that’s hard to define... childhood where a real democra- told by a familiar looking That’s precisely what I liked. cy was being built. And I think couple that the seat was also When I saw the script I thought it it’s still a unique example in reserved, and for the same lady was something very original – world history, how a democracy as before! Whoever Thelma somewhere between documen- really was built for civilians by Schoonmaker was, he thought, tary and fiction. It was also a military coup d’état without she must be pretty important. a challenge to play myself as blood and without violence. Would he (they asked him) a character. Of course it’s not Portugal really showed the please go to the front and tell myself; it’s just someone who has world how to make a democracy Mrs. Schoonmaker that the got my name and parts of myself. – through dialogue and without president and his wife I think both myself and Micheline violence, and with the idea that requested her company? Presle, and all the people who the most important thing is Tibor obliged (suddenly take part in the film, become always the human being. So for realizing who the mystery cou- characters. That was a nice expe- me, it really became like a life ple were) and went to give rience for me, and also the fact objective to tell that story in Mrs. Schoonmaker the mes- that it was shot all over Europe. a film. sage. She politely declined, as I feel very European and I like Photo: Jan Handrejch I How did Portuguese audi- she would only be there for European projects. ences react? a minute, and Tibor dutifully I Portuguese actor and singer Maria de Medeiros at the Pupp. The line where you intro- You know, this is something went back to the presidential duce yourself as “the girl from about the Americans. Something Pulp Fiction” I couple to convey her apolo- is very funny. made at a moment when… actu- a movie with an incredible life, Was it difficult to play? happened yesterday, and today gies. By then the film was I guess that’s who you are to ally it’s still like this – because it is still a very beautiful, It was very interesting. It there’s already a film about it. starting, and Tibor finally got many people still? Hollywood scripts are all done stunning film with incredible required a lot of research. It was They are very open about recent to sit down (next to Václav the same way. You know, at the images. The years pass and peo- That was something that was in nice to read so many books, not history. In Europe, it’s much Klaus and Livia Klausová) second minute something like ple are still very interested in that the script, because I would never only Anaïs Nin’s books but also more difficult. So, of course, it’s and enjoy The Red Shoes. say anything like that. I love Pulp this has to happen, at the fifth, movie that was so beautiful. but also Henry Miller’s and all a film that reached vast audiences And for those of you left Fiction, but there are so many something like that. And, if you Again, like Quentin, Phil their friends’ – Lawrence Durrell in Portugal. One of the films with wringing your hands yesterday, films I feel related to, although watch five Hollywood movies in Kaufman is really a wonderful and all these people around them. the highest audience numbers desperate to know just what they are perhaps films that are a row, you nearly always recog- artist and a great “author” – It was a very beautiful, interesting ever. But of course, it generated Jude Law was singing at his less known. I wouldn’t define nize the same script. I think that I’m attached to the discovery for me. a lot of polemics, because I shot it midnight karaoke session, we myself as the girl from Pulp I Working with Uma “films of authors.” That’s the big I April Captains, the when I was very young. I was have the answer: Mr. Law gave Fiction. Thurman on Henry and June, difference. It’s not so much about Portuguese revolution film you a girl making a war movie and a stirring rendition of Chuck I Is it a burden to live with based on the three-way American or European versus starred in, wrote, and directed I was talking about recent history Berry’s classic Johnny B. this role? romance with Henry Miller, his Asian [cinema]. It’s about people in 2000, was an ambitious proj- and people who were still alive, Goode. Go go – go Judey, go No, I’m very proud of Pulp wife and Anaïs Nin, must have who think that movies are an art ect, to say the least. Why did and so of course there was a lot of go go… Fiction. I think it was a very rev- been interesting. and other people who think they you choose to take all this on? polemic, but I think that’s good. [email protected] olutionary movie, because it was I am glad that this also is are just an industry. It was very important for me to That’s natural. I EXPLAINER SEE YOU THERE What’s to see off the beaten track in KV? Scott Cooper There’s life in this old town Diana Lookout Tower, located beyond movie screenings, you in the forests behind the Director of Crazy Heart know! Why not take a tour of the Grandhotel Pupp. The tower, famous Moser Glassworks (Kpt. which was erected in 1914, tow- I won’t see you there, because I have to head off, Jaroše 19), where the Crystal ers 547 meters above sea level. If but I would urge you to catch the second screening Globes awarded at KVIFF are you really want to earn your of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven. Malick is made? There are tours of the fac- lunch at the restaurant at the top, one of my favorite filmmakers, and I wanted Crazy tory every day of the week from you can walk up the hill, follow- Heart to feel as though it were born out of the 9am till 2:30pm, starting every ing the beaten track through the 1970s, which is the case with his Badlands and 30 minutes. Tours care available forest, or you can take the lazier Days of Heaven. There was something about the in Czech, English, German or option of catching a cable car languid pace with which he told the stories, which Russian. Call 800 166 737 ahead from the station near the Pupp. allowed you to place your expectations on what was of time to book a tour in your The cable car runs from 9.15am happening, as opposed to just having everything chosen language. The Moser to 6.45pm at 15-minute intervals spelled out for you. A lot of it was played on sub- Glass Museum right next door to and a return ticket costs 36 CZK. text, often without dialogue, but with images. The the glassworks is open every day Moser glassblower making a Halfway up the hill the cable car way that the cinematography of Néstor Almendros from 9am to 5pm.