“I love him, and I hate him, and I want to be him”
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In his award-winning sophomore picture, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg stars alongside Kieran Culkin (delivering a career best performance) on a clever, funny and profoundly moving tour through historic trauma foregrounded by the familial struggles of the present. A rigid and pragmatic father, David (Eisenberg) takes a trip Poland to reunite with his freewheeling cousin Benji (Culkin) on a Holocaust tour in memory of their late grandmother. As they reckon with the horrors of the World War II with a group of older tourists, David and Benji butt heads and find themselves grappling with their own history.
“Culkin turns in a truly touching and unforgettable performance”
“A tender, funny treatise on family jealousies and our relationship to the past. Simultaneously light and heavy, it soars on the stellar pairing of Eisenberg and Culkin”
“A beautifully complex ramble of a road movie”
Jesse Eisenberg’s deeply personal directorial effort explores pain both great and small, old and new as well as its roots and remedies with soothing empathy and sharp wit, breathing fresh air into the buddy-road-trip dynamic. Driven by a pair for truly great performances and a soundtrack of Frédéric Chopin selections, A Real Pain saunters about at a breezy pace, failing to hides its scars, gradually revealing a complex mess of angst and grief to pick apart, confront, understand and maybe even heal.