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Bear with Us

East of the West - Competition 2018 / Chata na prodej / Czech Republic 2018

A family has decided to sell their lovely cottage as none of them has visited it for some time. Yet it holds so many nostalgic memories that the mother suggests they all spend one last day there before the sale takes place. This deliberately paced comedy, whose protagonists often remind the viewer of characters from a Jaroslav Papoušek screenplay, takes an agreeably detached view of the Czech phenomenon of weekending in the country.

Synopsis

A family has decided to sell their lovely cottage as none of them has visited it for some time. Yet it holds so many nostalgic memories that the mother suggests they all spend one last day there before the sale takes place. During their (more or less voluntary) time together, certain issues between individual members of the family inevitably come out into the open. Four years after his debut Totally Talking, director Tomáš Pavlíček returns to Karlovy Vary with a deliberately paced comedy whose protagonists may remind the viewer of characters crafted by Jaroslav Papoušek. Bear with Us, the director’s second picture, takes an agreeably detached view of the Czech phenomenon of weekending in the country.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

77 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Tomáš Pavlíček / Screenplay Tomáš Pavlíček, Lucie Bokšteflová / Dir. of Photography Jan Baset Střítežský / Music Aleš Březina / Editor Janka Vlčková / Art Director Tereza Kučerová, Zuzana Formánková / Producer Tomáš Michálek, Jakub Mahler / Production MasterFilm, s.r.o. / Coproduction Česká televize - Filmové centrum / Cast Ivana Chýlková, David Vávra, Tereza Voříšková, Michael Pitthan, Judit Bárdos, Jan Strejcovský, Jana Synková / Contact MasterFilm / Distributor CinemArt, a.s.

About the director

Tomáš Pavlíček (b. 1988, Chrudim, Czechoslovakia). Filmography: Gas Station (2009, short), Scheduled Departure (2010, short), The Fastest Matthew in the World (2011, short), Prague, My Love (2012 – segment “Ordinary Timetable”), Totally Talking (2014), Bear with Us (2018)