A Real Pain
Local title
Tõeline valu
Director
Jesse Eisenberg
Country
USA, Poland
Year
2024
Two estranged cousins explore their grandmother's past in one of the best road movies of the year.
Jesse Eisenberg's second film as director is a comedy-drama about two misfit cousins who go on a guided tour of the Majdanek concentration camp.
Eisenberg plays a bound perfectionist and, as always, does so with nuanced accuracy, but the film's brightest star is Kieran Culkin (“Succession”) as an irritating but lovable dynamo. A dialogue-driven film, which both actors handle masterfully, about inherited trauma, it manages to be funny despite both theme and location suggesting otherwise.
Director
Jesse Eisenberg
Screenwriter
Jesse Eisenberg
Cast
Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes
Producer
Ewa Puszczyńska, Jennifer Semler, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Ali Herting, Dave McCary
Executive producer
Michael Bloom, Ryan Heller, Kevin Kelly, Jennifer Westin, Jasmine Daghighian
Cinematographer
Michał Dymek
Production Design
Mela Melak
Editing
Robert Nassau
Music
Erick Eiser
Make-up
Olga Nejbauer
Costume design
Malgorzata Fudala
Production
Topic Studios, Fruit Tree, Rego Park, Extreme Emotions
World sales
Serchlight Pictures
Distribution
Hea Film
Runtime
Language
English
Subtitles
Estonian, Russian
Other festivals
Sundance, Busan

Director
Jesse Eisenberg
When You Finish Saving the World (2022), A Real Pain (2024)
Screenings
2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening011203 / Tõeline valu
SubtitlesEstonian, Russian
Screening duration
1st Saku hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening081104 / Tõeline valu
SubtitlesEstonian, Russian
Screening duration
2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening171204 / Tõeline valu
SubtitlesEstonian, Russian
Screening duration
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