A Real Pain is the film by and with Jesse Eisenberg to be released in Italian theaters on February 27, candidate for the Oscars and which has already earned Kieran Culkin the Golden Globe and the Bafta for the best supporting actor.
It is the story of two cousins ​​of Jewish origin that once the very loyal grandmother died, emigrated to the States following the Shoah, I decide to pay homage to them with a trip to Poland.
The journey is an opportunity to meet again, but also for the two protagonists as loyal as they are different, to solve the tensions of the past and deal with what they have become. One with a family and a work solid, despite their banality, the other with a charm and a charisma wasted for too much sensitivity, which after attempted suicide ends up staying in the limbo of a appearance at NY airport.
The film is touching and tender, able to deal with important topics between one laugh and the other, with the only defect of perhaps remembering a little too close Everything is enlightened.
The Road Movie explores the many aspects of the human soul, but also the complexity of life and history with a capital S, themes with which everyone has had to deal and who for this reason bring the viewer bring and involve him.
The soundtrack
A Real Pain like any self -respecting travel story is also such through the soundtrack that manages with power to underline every emotion of the moment, from a wide selection of the Chopin nights, to traditional Jewish music played by an orchestra, passing through jazz in pure New York style to get to the most energetic Rocksteady of Slim Smith.
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