Surprisingly, Johnny Depp also has a tuxedo. And Ethan Hawke super shoes. The last red carpet, Vary is over. Long live the 56th IFF

29.08.2021

Photo: KVIFF (as well as other images in the article, unless otherwise stated)

Caption: Did Johnny Depp arrive at the closing ceremony late, looking for a tuxedo in the bowels of his many suitcases?

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At the end of the festival, Johnny Depp undoubtedly caused the most uproar, revealing a super flattering thing to the editor of Práva. When she managed to catch a star for one short question, how he likes in Vary, he replied: “I would like to live here.” and she was a little lost in Depp’s glow. And Ethan Hawke doesn’t deserve that.

The last of this year’s KVIFF Talks, which is a traditional festival discussion, belonged to the American actor, screenwriter, writer and director Ethan Hawke.

Let’s take it from the beginning, from Ethan’s arrival on Thursday. Apparently, the fans who arrived for the autograph prepared a photo from the film, and here Ethan Hawke looks with interest at which film they chose.

Right at the beginning, the moderator, the British journalist Neil Young, asked him about his collaboration with a Czech native, the acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard. “I was over thirty and I was entering a phase of disappointment in my life. And then I met Tom, who is so kind, witty and thinks in many ways that you are excited only when you watch him, “Hawke confided, adding that Milan Kundera’s books opened his way to Czech culture in high school. Why did the Czech native Stoppard just talk about it? Because Ethan Hawke (along with other stars, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, and Amy Irving) starred in the scenic triptych The Coast of Utopia, whose theme is 19th-century Russia. But then came the film.

The films that the stars will present are chosen by themselves, Ethan Hawke has chosen the film Despair and Hope, where he plays a priest

Society of dead poets

The debate turned to the film Society of Dead Poets, which Hawka made famous in 1989. He played here with big stars Robin Williams and Norman Lloyd. “When Robin was in the room with someone, he always knew inwardly who didn’t like him. Whoever it was, he addressed all his jokes and all his energy to that particular person, ”Hawke recalled meeting a famous actor and comedian.

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“He used to joke like that on the spot. Which made me incredibly irritated at eighteen. I was very focused then and tried not to get out of the role. I just left school, studied for Stanislavsky and other theories. So I was constantly wondering on the stage what the next scene would be, what my character was thinking, what were her motivations … And he was just joking about it all. So logically, all these forums were aimed directly at me. And he didn’t stop. The more it bothered me, the more material he had on me, of course. At the same time, I was just afraid that I would ruin it and that I was not good enough. “

Ethan Hawke comes to KVIFF Talks

It was said that the meeting with Norman Lloyd, an acting legend who played under Alfred Hitchock or Charlie Chaplin, was similarly crucial. “He came to me once and said, ‘Do you realize that you’re gaining the greatest life experience right now? I somehow nodded to him, and he: Really, you’re going to tell this at film festivals in fifty years. They will ask you about these moments. Remember them and take it seriously. And then he told me that he’d been asked all his life about his experience with director Orson Welles. It was really prophetic of him then, “said Ethan Hawke. Neil Young also asked him to play alongside Jack Lemmon in Dad or Dog in White Fang. “When you’re at a dog photography festival, you’ll immediately understand exactly who you are. It will teach you humility. If I ever taught acting, I would definitely organize a lesson with an animal, “the actor joked.

There was also talk of Linklater’s trilogy “Before” and throwing flip-flops on the pond, which the American director allegedly can shoot so perfectly that the viewer perceives reality as a film trick

By the way, that Peter Weir film from 1989 is still good, Robin Williams is famous, and Ethan Hawke from that group of teenagers is probably the only one who has made a “great career” – although it was rather expected from Robert Sean Leonard at the time (Ethan’s friend, by the way), which we know as Dr. Wilson from the series Dr House, or Josh Charles. He, like Leonard, got stuck in TV projects, we saw him here as Will Gardner from The Good Wife.

Festival President Award

The 55th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where Ethan Hawke went with Paul Schrader’s film Despair and Hope, awarded the actor the Karlovy Vary IFF President’s Award (along with our Jan Svěrák). “I’m trying to live in the present,” Hawke told KFIFF Talks of the upcoming award. “When you look too hard at the past, it brings arrogance because you forget those who helped you succeed at the time. And when you worry too much about the future, it only brings fear. We are most human in the present. That’s why I like film festivals, it’s the only place where movies aren’t divided according to the Rotten Tomatoes ranking or the financial gain. We are here together and we enjoy art, “he said.

The block is quite common (picture from the arrival at the closing ceremony), but very nice shoes, don’t you think?

He added that at the end of the closing ceremony he came for his President’s Award: “It is a great honor to be here with you. When I asked Richard Linklater what he knew about this festival, he told me that what set him apart from the others was the audience that really loved the film. I saw and felt it here too. The Czech community is intelligent and inspired me as an artist, “he flattered the audience.

Who won?

As always, more awards were given, the main one, the Crystal Globe, went to director Stefan Arsenijević for the film Strahinja. It is reported on the KVIFF website: “Strahinja and his wife Ababuo left Ghana with a vision of a better life in Europe. Instead of in the west, in the dream Germany, however, they ended up in Serbia, where they were deported. Strahinja began to build a career in the local football club, Ababuo, an actress by profession, she has no chance of realization and her frustration is growing. When Ababuo disappears one day, Strahinja sets out to look for her. In the film’s masterfully captured film, Stefan Arsenijević presents the audience with a crystal clear, humanistic story about the need to find his place in the world and about love, the deepest proof of which may be the most painful. ” HERE. Well, Vary is over, long live Vary: The 56th Karlovy Vary IFF will take place from July 1 to July 9, 2022.