The core of Kinečko film magazine is here again to recommend a couple of films you can’t miss.
Eva Križková: The White World According to Daliborek, Kino Lumière (K1), 8 p.m.
I almost didn’t make it through this film. Not because it would be boring. On the contrary. It is far too intense in how directly and intimately it portrays the everyday reality of people we’re not used to meeting and talking to in person. Instead of discussing whether this “portrait of a gentle neo-Nazi” should be considered a true documentary, I recommend spending 105 minutes in a reality I hope you’d never experience otherwise.
Saša Gabrižová: Kate Plays Christine, Kino Lumière (K2), 8:15 p.m.
Out of today’s programme, I’m picking a documentary again. Kate Plays Christine is a film that has left a deep imprint on my mind. In 1974 news anchor Christine Chubbuck committed suicide during a live television broadcast. As part of a reconstruction and efforts to understand this event, the director Robert Greene is interested in the re-birth of Kate, who is an actress, into the character of Christine. As Pavla Racherová aptly writes in her review, “in a standard production of a feature but often even documentary film, things such as archive footage, newspaper clippings or the costumes tend to be provided in advance rather than witnessed by the viewer. In this film, investigation and discovering are turned into working methods.” While working on his own documentary films, Greene often partners with the American independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry and writes for Sight & Sound magazine.
