Peter Sarsgaard calls for “collective action” in an America divided to Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Peter Sarsgaard devoted his acceptance speech to Karlovy Vary Film Festival to call for “collective action” in the United States on July 4.
Sarsgaard was honored alongside “Phantom Thread” and the actress “Corsage” Vicky Krieps with the prize of the president of the festival. In his speech, Sarsgaard spoke of how to work with others on films taught him that “there are no things alone” and applied this to a bitterly divided us
“While my country withdraws from his global responsibilities and tries to go a horseman alone, he is also divided into factions of the interior, factions of politics, sex, sexuality, race, the Jews separated during the war. But when there is a common enemy, there are no things alone,” he said.
“Collective action is the only way to follow in art and in our happiness. So thank you for that. I could not have done it without all of you. And in the words of [Czech playwright] Vaclav Havel, half of a room can not stay warmly while the other half is cold, “he continued.
Sarsgaard recently appeared in the drama of journalism “September 5” as president of ABC sports, Roone Arledge, whose team found himself covering the black terrorist attacks in September at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Another journalism drama in which he played, “Shattered Glass” with Hayden Christensen, projects the Vary festival.
Krieps, who recently won the prize for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her work in “Corsage”, spoke to her love films and their ability to “cross borders and transport the most powerful messages”.
“I came with nothing, and when I leave this planet, I will go with nothing. So, unfortunately, even the magnificent price is not going with me where I go, ”she said. “But I’m going to take all the memories and all my dreams, and that’s what the films can do. So we should try to save the films so that they continue to exist, and they continue to broadcast the word of love and peace and, above all, sorry.”
