Photo: Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary
The organisers of the Karlovy Vary film festival have just unveiled its two competitions, a month before the 57th edition starts. The main Crystal Globe competition will have one fewer entry than usual, after the Chinese authorities intervened. But local cinema fans will be excited to hear there are two Czech films in the running, We Have Never Been Modern and A Sensitive Person. I asked Karlovy Vary’s artistic director Karel Och about them.
“We Have Never Been Modern is the English title of the second feature film by Matěj Chlupáček, who is an extremely young but already established filmmaker; he’s not even 30 yet.
“He is the author of this very self-assured period drama set in 1937.
“It is a, let’s say, detective drama. There’s a very strong suspense moment in the movie, which is gorgeously shot.
“The main character is a woman who is about to give birth to a child. She’s the wife of the director of the factory where a stillborn child is found.
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Author: Ian Willoughby