Juliette Binoche, 'Teenage Sex and Death' and Queer Longing: All in a Day's Work at Karlovy Vary

Housing screening rooms, social spaces, administrative offices, and meeting hubs, the Hotel Thermal is more than the heart of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - in many ways, this monument to Soviet brutalism is the festival. From morning until well past midnight, its concrete corridors teem with thousands of students and Oscar winners, international visitors and local fl'neurs alike, generating the distinctive buzz that defines KVIFF. That buzz reached its peak on Thursday, as a succession of events showcased both the breadth of the program and the geographic compactness . . .