Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to get underway

The 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will get underway on Friday evening with the screening of the American film Crazy Heart, directed by Scott Cooper. In the film, Jeff Bridges plays an aging country singer given a second chance and the performance earned Bridges this year’s Academy Award for Best Actor. Other films to be shown in Karlovy Vary over the next nine days include Knight and Day, an action movie starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. In all, 205 films will be screened. Guests at the festival will include British actor Jude Law, known for key roles in projects like Road to Perdition or Artificial Intelligence or Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov, who won the Best Foreign Language film Oscar for Burnt by the Sun in 1994.