Karlovy Vary Artistic Director Readies for Czech Reckoning With #MeToo Ahead of Premiere of ‘Broken Voices’

Karlovy Vary Artistic Director Readies for Czech Reckoning With #MeToo Ahead of Premiere of ‘Broken Voices’

Things are changing in the Czech Republic, says Karlovy Vary Film Festival artistic director Karel Och. Also when it comes to the #MeToo movement.   “What we need is a conversation – and films like ‘Broken Voices,’” he says. Ondřej Provazní’s drama, selected for the Crystal Globe Competition, was inspired by the Bambini di Praga case: a famous children’s choir which saw its choirmaster arrested and charged with sexual abuse of minors that we…

Friday One Sheet: BROKEN VOICES

The key art for Czech film, Broken Voices, is a welcome reminder to designers that a well lit, perfectly F-stopped photo is often the best way to make a movie poster. In warm hues of browns, creams, and red, a young woman faces the opposite direction from her choir, looking not directly at us, but slightly, mysteriously, beyond us. Her hands and her hair fall limply to her sides. Perhaps it is the glance, perhaps it is the verticality of the des…