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Why don’t we get to see these films?
RITA DI SANTOS takes us through an excellent showcase of new films that distributors in the UK should pay attention to
DADDY ISSUES: David Prachar in Tomas Klein’s A Sensitive Person
[Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary]
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023
THE quiet, charming Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary (formally Karlsbad) wakes up once a year to the exciting buzz of one of Europe’s largest and most vibrant film festivals.
Backpacking youngsters come from all over the Czech Republic to see movies, clearly carefully chosen by people who know what they are about. With a total of 445 films from more than 60 countries, it is also a global event, and a great percentage of the selection are from young directors, bringing a different way of filmmaking, and breaking boundaries between fiction and documentary.
This festival is also a unique opportunity to understand what has happened to the heritage of Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel, Ewald Schorm, Milos Forman, Vera Chytilova, the most famous exponents of the Czech “nova vlna” (New Wave) of the 1960s, all young students of Famu, the famous film school, who gained international recognition when Menzel won an Academy Award for Closely Watched Trains (1966).
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