A REAL PAIN

Jesse Eisenberg, who is often cast as a nerdy neurotic, has written this role for himself to perfection. In his second directorial and screenplay work, he plays David, a New Yorker who travels through Poland with his cousin Benji (a brilliant Kieran Culkin) in the wake of his grandmother’s death. The two couldn’t be more different, but they share an intergenerational trauma and a deep friendship that is put to the test on their journey. A film full of surprising humour and humanism.