Ben Mendelsohn will attend KVIFF to present his newest film, the critically acclaimed Sundance darling MISSISSIPPI GRIND, from the directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, and co-starring Ryan Reynolds and Siena Miller. Mendelsohn is considered one of today’s best and most popular Australian actors. Since the mid-1980s, when he started out primarily in television series, he has gained a firm position not only in Australian film productions but has gradually – like his contemporaries Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce – found success in Hollywood as well. His first such film was the “mountaineering thriller” Vertical Limit (1990). In his native Australia he has received eight nominations for best actor of the year and converted two of those into awards – at the outset of his career in 1987 for the film The Year My Voice Broke and at its peak in 2010 for the lead role in the film Animal Kingdom.
Among the Hollywood blockbusters in his filmography we can also find Knowing (2009) by Alex Proyas, Nolan’s Batman trilogy The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the crime-thriller Killing Them Softly (2012), where he appeared alongside Brad Pitt, and Ridley Scott’s historical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014).
Last year’s Karlovy Vary IFF presented the film Starred Up (2013), for which Mendelsohn won the British Independent Film Award.
At the 50th Karlovy Vary IFF Ben Mendelsohn will be joined by MISSISSIPPI GRIND (2015) director Ryan Fleck. (2015).
