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00:02 - Hi, my name is Jesse Eisenberg
00:06 and I'm the director of "A Real Pain"
00:09 which is playing in the US dramatic competition category
00:13 at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
00:16 My movie follows two cousins played by me
00:19 and the brilliant Kieran Culkin
00:21 as we go on a heritage tour through Poland
00:24 to see where our family is from.
00:26 A lot of the movie is based on my family's personal history.
00:29 We even filmed a scene at the little apartment
00:32 that my family fled from in 1938.
00:35 These are some of the places that I visited
00:39 on my first trip to Poland in 2007
00:41 and which 15 years later ultimately served
00:44 as the locations for our movie.
00:46 At the movie's core is an intimate buddy story
00:50 of these two mismatched guys.
00:52 Their relationship is funny and fraught and bittersweet
00:56 but what makes the movie resonant for me
00:58 is that their complicated relationship
01:00 is set against the backdrop of the history and trauma
01:03 of Eastern Europe and the Second World War.
01:06 So it kind of frames their personal troubles
01:09 in a global perspective and allows me to explore
01:12 the question of pain, specifically how do we reconcile
01:16 our contemporary struggles against the backdrop
01:18 of historical traumas?
01:20 The movie tries to answer these complicated questions
01:25 but also hopefully it's warm, relatable and funny.
01:28 Thank you so much.
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01:35 (dramatic music)
01:38 (upbeat music)
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