To have a front line for all ongoing at 59th Karlovy varies international film festival This week meant to see some refreshing new movies such as, Much like Cannes did only a couple of months backConfront the often dark and painful parts of our world in an attempt to find the small records of humanity they could. The films could not always hold on to this feeling and the search could often be more than a little full, although the brightest places of the festival came from those who tried to do so the same.
In particular, the best two films in the main competition were the Czech films ”Broken votes“And”Better get angry in nature“The latter rightly took home the top price Saturday night while the former received a special jury mention for the exciting newcomer Kateřina Falbrová. Although their recognition opened the discussion about which movie will be the Czech Oscar submission (consensus was that it would probably be “broken voices” because it is more founded in history where “better in nature is less conventional), the films could not be more different and serve as a demonstration of the country’s cinema in 202.
Where “broken voices” were about a real case of abuse and how people can look the other way, “Better Go Mad in the Wild” is a hybrid documentary that uses inventive methods to create a story of kind of two real twins that find meaning in life. What united them and the other prominent competition films at the festival (for example “Bid“And” when a river becomes an ocean “) was how they remained driven by an in -depth sociological interest in everyday people.
In addition, there were also outstanding films that were already known from having shown previous festivals that still felt integrated into the identity of Karlovy this year. The most important was Dea Bulumbegashvili’s astonishing ”April“A formal ambitious and secure drama about an ob/village performing abortions. It is a movie that has only become more urgent since it premiere back at Venice last year And will surely be one of the best of the year. More than anything it is good to watch her movie come in front of so many audiences after it never received a proper release in her homeland Georgia because it did not Get a distributor of concern for government oppression.
The director, who also led a masterclass at the festival, will also make her the next feature in America under Emma Sten And Dave McCary’s production banner fruit trees, making his current film even more critical to catch up with. The fact that Karlovy varies gave a chance to see Kulumbegashvili’s compassionate yet annoying vision of sound and rage on the big screen was a highlight on its own. What makes it so outstanding is the enormous care that Bulumbegashvili provides both crafts and character, which represents the top of what modern film can only strive to be.
There were many other films from other festivals, such as the Sundance Posts ”All that is left of you“If I had legs I would kick you“Peter Hujar’s day“And”Zodiac Killer Project. “Berlin delivered Michel Francos”Dreams“And that usually programmed Kviff a large number of films from Cannes, including”Dangerous animals“It was just an accident“Stir“Sorry, honey“And”Round. ”
Outside the films, an interview on stage with Stellan Skarsgård caught the most attention. It Came When The Swedish Actor Stellan Skarsgård Told the Hollywood Reporter Columnist Scott Feinberg and a Live Audience That The Late Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman “Was A Nazi During the War and the Only Person I Know Who Cried When Hitler Died” – WHIC have been the first time many heard about the director’s history. (Bergman never tried to hide his first Nazi sympathies but rejected Hitler after the war when the extent of Nazi atrocities became apparent.)
