A Zoomed-in Eisenberg joined the premiere of his new film which embeds issues of trauma and identity in an odd-couple buddy comedy.
From left: Jennifer Grey, Dave McCary, Emma Stone, and Kieran Culkin speak onstage, with Jesse Eisenberg speaking remotely, at the screening of 'A Real Pain' during the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on October 05, 2024 in New York City.
The film centers on cousins David and Benji as they take a roots trip to Poland to visit Holocaust sites and pay homage to their recently departed grandmother, a survivor who immigrated to the United States. A meditation on personal grief and historical tragedy wrapped in the garb of an odd-couple comedy, the film ensures that complex questions of identity and responsibility land with all the laughs.
The story had an unusual origin. “I saw an advertisement on the Internet and it said ‘Auschwitz Tours .’ That’s seemed like something to write about,” Eisenberg recalled. “The implications are that we want, as a modern middle-class culture, to go and experience the trauma of our ancestors but at the same time we don’t want to forgo any of our material creature-comfort pleasures.
Eisenberg added, “I realized that you can do a Holocaust story fraught with all the horrors and grief of the Holocaust but if you make it about real people going through really their own personal grief and strife you can have something that can exist in that careful tone without being too irreverent.”focused on Nazis living next door.
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