Kieran Culkin tells a story about desperately not wanting to go to Poland to make Jesse Eisenberg’s odd-couple road movie, “A Real Pain,” and, while every word of it’s true and comes from a deep place in his soul, tied to the love he has for his wife and children, it still feels like a bit of salesmanship for the …
As the saying goes, you can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family. “A Real Pain,” writer-director-star Jesse Eisenberg’s loosely autobiographical, beautifully observed dramedy, takes an affecting look at this familial dynamic as mismatched cousins David and Benji travel to Poland to visit the childhood home of their beloved, recently deceased grandmother Dory, a Holocaust survivor. The cousins’ …
A Real Pain film explores the parallels of generational struggle through the lens of two Jewish American cousins touring modern-day Poland. The film poses the question of which pain is valid and how we should handle the emotional distress of those who have experienced trauma. The film features a strong cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, …
