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A Real Pain award winning film
Witty intelligent moving but also hilarious film about two American Jewish cousins- David (Jesse Eisenberg) uptight and neurotic, and Benji (Kieran Culkin) free-spirited and charming – trying to reconnect on a trip to Poland funded by their late beloved Holocaust-survivor grandmother. Written by, directed by and starring Eisenberg who won a BAFTA for original screenplay, allows co-star Culkin, the mischievous carefree but troubled Benji to steal every scene – for which he won Oscar, BAFTA + Golden Globe as Best supporting actor.
The film manages to delicately tread between the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, drawing a line to modern times and wondering out loud how humans deal with all the pain and anxiety in their lives, to the awkward, almost slapstick humour of the worlds-apart cousins clashing against each other.
Hailed as a masterpiece by film critic Peter Bradshaw, “ This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious overcurrent. It is a road movie which is partly about the Holocaust and about America’s third-generation attempt at coming to terms with it, at confronting what their parents and grandparents found too painfully recent to revisit, or necessary to forget in order to survive. And partly it’s about family, male friendship and growing older....Both Culkin and Eisenberg are excellent and this is such a pleasure” (5 Stars)
Cert 15
The film manages to delicately tread between the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, drawing a line to modern times and wondering out loud how humans deal with all the pain and anxiety in their lives, to the awkward, almost slapstick humour of the worlds-apart cousins clashing against each other.
Hailed as a masterpiece by film critic Peter Bradshaw, “ This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious overcurrent. It is a road movie which is partly about the Holocaust and about America’s third-generation attempt at coming to terms with it, at confronting what their parents and grandparents found too painfully recent to revisit, or necessary to forget in order to survive. And partly it’s about family, male friendship and growing older....Both Culkin and Eisenberg are excellent and this is such a pleasure” (5 Stars)
Cert 15
Friday 2 May
The Drill Hall
Lower Church Street, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16 5HJ
7.30pm start, running time 1 hour 30 minsDoors open 7pm
Tickets £6
Online in advance (reserved seats) or at the door from 7pm
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