Karlovy Fluctuate is rolling out the pink carpet for Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Misplaced Daughter, Secretary, The Honourable Lady) and Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Community, A Actual Ache, When You End Saving the World) this yr.
At its 60th anniversary edition subsequent month, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will current its President’s Award to the “two distinctive personalities who have significantly shaped contemporary world cinema,” organizers mentioned on Monday. “In their work, director, screenwriter and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and the multifaceted actor, director, screenwriter and author Jesse Eisenberg transition smoothly between charismatic performances and bold auteur filmmaking.”
Mentioned KVIFF government director Kryštof Mucha: “We at the festival are glad to be able to welcome two creative individuals whose work as actors, screenwriters, and directors is representative of contemporary trends in cinema and whose films are an intense experience for audiences.”
Jesse Eisenberg
Courtesy of KVIFF
Gyllenhaal will obtain her honor in the course of the opening ceremony of the sixtieth version of KVIFF on Friday, July 3. On the fest, she will even current her movie The Bride!, which she wrote, directed and produced. The “imaginative continuation of the classic Frankenstein story, influenced by both the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s original masterpiece,” the film stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Additionally receiving KVIFF’s President’s Award shall be Eisenberg, whose upcoming movie as a author and director, The Debut, stars Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti. Eisenberg additionally co-stars in and wrote the music and lyrics for the movie’s musical-within-the-movie. The film shall be launched within the fall by A24. In his honor, the Czech pageant will display The Double, directed by Richard Ayoade, by which Eisenberg performs the lead position.
“Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg are distinguished by a certain ‘trans-Atlantic’ sensitivity,” mentioned KVIFF inventive director Karel Och. “Their work as actors and directors has the ability to connect the New World and Europe while drawing on the most essential elements of both traditions. The humor of New York intellectuals is combined with wisdom, talent, and an original way of seeing the world.”
