41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award Winners
by Andre Soares
Laurie Collyer’s Sherrybaby, the story of a woman who returns home after spending three years in jail, has won the Crystal Globe for Best Film at the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Maggie Gyllenhaal was chosen Best Actress for playing Sherrybaby’s former convict, while Andrzej Hudziak won the Best Actor award for his role as a geeky writer in the Polish social drama Pare osób, maly czas / Several People, Little Time.
Several other Central European films were represented in the list of Karlovy Vary winners, including the two Best Film runners-up, Special Jury Prize winners Obarnata elha / Christmas Tree Upside Down, a German-Bulgarian co-production directed by Ivan Cherkelov and Vassil Zhivkov, and Jan Hrebejk’s Czech comedy-drama Kráska v nesnázích / Beauty in Trouble, about a woman (Anna Geislerová) torn between two men.
Joachim Trier won as Best Director for Reprise, a Norwegian film about two writer wannabes - one of them becomes successful and goes nuts, the other one continues to struggle but maintains his sanity.
Winners at the 2006 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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Just a small note about Reprise - it is indeed about two writer wannabes, but it is more tragic and less simplistic than you state it; in fact it is the successful writer who goes “nuts” (as you so aptly put it), while the unsuccessful writer keeps on struggling to get by…
Boyd,
Thanks for the correction. I misread the synopsis on the Karlovy Vary Fest site.
And absolutely, I know the movie is more complex than my glib synopsis. I was trying to be both brief *and* funny…
By the way, I love your site. Thanks again for writing.