PLACES The new film from the makers of Walking Too Fast (Pouta) is a coming of age story about love, loss and revenge. It centres around two teenage friends, Adam (Vladimír Polivka) and Marek (Jan Cina), whose aimless lives in a small town are suddenly disrupted by the appearance of Anna (Johana Matouskova), the troubled daughter of a rich and influential local businessman. Initially her free spirit energizes Adam but soon he finds himself thrown into a spiraling chain of events. Innocence is about to be abruptly replaced with the adult emotions of guilt, fear and revenge. Places is an awaited film from the same team of the award-winning Walking Too Fast (5 Czech Lion Awards including Best Film, Director and Screenplay), which showed the rotten nature of the late Communism era in the 80's through the member of the secret police. How did the producer Vratislav Slajer, the screenwriter Ondrej Stindl, the director Radim Spacek and the director of photography Jaromir Kacer grasp the frivolity and romanticism of the 90's shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain?
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Us2 This is a true love story of the 21st century. Hoping for change, Ema (Jana Plodkova) runs away from her family and leaves her husband. She hides at the apartment of her hairdresser, a gay guy Tony (Ondrej Nosalek), even though she barely knows him. At the beginning they are merely two strangers, connected by their mutual effort of escaping from their families. They get closer and help each other to overcome the most painful obstacles of their lives. Their liberating friendship almost becomes a love affair, despite the fact it cannot be fulfilled. This liberation creates an intense bond between them: a new escape, a new quest. This is a story of a lost girl and her hairdresser and their attempts to escape the trap of their own desires of belonging to somebody. The screenplay was written by an award-winning novelist Radka Denemarkova (German Usedom Prize for Literature, 3 Czech Magnesia Litera Awards).
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Bionaut is an experienced, award winning film and TV company based in Prague, Czech Republic. We are presenting our new movies Places and Us2 at a market screening at Marché du Film, Cannes International Film Festival. Come and meet us on Tuesday May, 20th, 4 p.m at Riviera 3!
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