Boils are coming back. Thermal lights illuminate the plays of Almodóvar and the Czech Philharmonic – Seznam Právy

The most popular film festival and the first Czech orchestra -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Such a connection is offered by the named cultural event Change in 2024. For the fourth time, the organizers of KVIFF have teamed up with the Czech Philharmonic and in the iconic locations of the Great Hall of the Thermal Hotel and in the Císařský Lázně, they will organize on the 22nd – 23rd. special film screenings and concerts in November.

This year’s Variations brings three essential films from the past season. Side roomthe latest effort of the famous Spanish director Pedra Almodovathe director’s drama Andrey Arnold the birdwhich appeared in this year’s Cannes main competition, and a comedy road movie Jesseho Eisenberg called Real pain.

The Czech Philharmonic will play essential works from the creation Lewis Janáček, Bedrich Smetana a Antonín Dvořák. Just as the musicians were practicing for their guest appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York under the direction of conductor and music director Semjon Byčkov.

“Real pain it is a light film, a buddy fight that is rooted in verbal humor and word fight. However, its hidden emotional cost soon dawns on you,” he wrote about the actor’s first film. Jesseho Eisenbergknown for example from the movie The Social Network (2010) Variety website.

Eisenberg’s directorial venture, in which the actor starred alongside Ciaran Culkinrecent Emmy winner for the series Struggle for Power, tells the story of two Jewish cousins ​​on a journey to find their own roots. Variety praises the comedy set during the so-called “Holocaust tour” for “the impenetrable clarity of a good script,” which brilliantly balances the edge of humor and seriousness. And of course he appreciates Eisenberg’s performances and especially Kieran Culkin, one of the most interesting actors in recent years.

Just seventy-five years old Pedro Almodovar he’s been making great movies since the late 1970s, but his career shows no signs of slowing down. On the contrary. This year’s picture Side room the director won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The award is also special for Almodóvar as this is the first feature film made by the director entirely in English. The Side Room is about writer Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and war reporter Martha (Tilda Swinton), former colleagues whose friendship is rekindled after years of hibernation -) Yes I think it breaks, but also a strange wish from Martha who is very ill.

“It is a beautiful, sad, and tender affair; new song in September in a duet, which Swinton and Moore play with aplomb,” writes a review of the film in the British newspaper Guardian. “The film is richer and more real, the but Martha and Ingrid rekindle their friendship. So the closing credits leave us with a sense of loss.”

Variations 2024 also offers a new film by one of the most important female filmmakers of the last two decades, Andrew Arnold. Her films realistically capture visual emotions, whether she’s telling the story of Windy Heat or exploring the lives of marginalized people, as she did in the tender drama Fishtank (2009). The new film from the Oscar-winning British director, Birdsas Fishtank, returning to socially excluded areas, dealing with precocious puberty and rough street life in Kent, England.

In addition to films, you can also look forward to concerts of classical music at Variaci Czech Philharmonic. Dvořák’s concerto for violin and orchestra in A minor with soloist Jan Mráček, concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic, and Janáček’s extraordinary opus, the Glagolitic Mass, cantata for soloist, mixed choir and organ will be set to text Old Slavonic played in the Great Hall of the Thermal Hotel. There will also be Dvořák’s concerto for piano and orchestra in G minor, but also another essential work of Czech music, Smetana’s My Fatherland, from which the first three symphonic poems will be heard.

Variations 2024 also invites the public to free concerts: Mysliveček, Mozart in Sparkasse, where a wind octet of members of the Czech Philharmonic and the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra will perform, and on Saturday evening at the Vřídelní Colonnade, The two aforementioned groups performed compositions by Tomas Albionio and Antonín Dvořák.