Little Miss

Oscars 2007 — Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
2006 Sundance International Film Festival — Grand Prix
Academy Awards 2007 — Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
Sundance Film Festival 2006 — Grand Prix.

When Dwayne writes on a piece of paper to the family: I'm not going to have fun! , we already know our own. Because it will quickly turn out that driving a yellow rickety VW bus with the whole - no less disheveled - family will also turn out to be a groundbreaking, beautiful, bittersweet, adventurous expedition for him.

Little Miss is the perfect family road movie, in which the joint acceleration of a vehicle becomes a metaphor for the cooperation necessary to start from a place. There are more metaphors here, by the way, but they are all united by a common theme: the dream of success and the fear of failure. For on board the bus, besides the silent Dwayne, who wants to become a pilot, are his little sister, dreaming of winning a beauty contest, a father who, as a coach, knows - but only in theory - how to achieve success in life, an uncle - almost the best specialist in the country from Proust, a grandfather who challenges everything, and a mother who tries to ease family friction. but with varying success. And to that great, witty and sharp dialogues, acting ensembles with incredible chemistry and brilliantly used dance piece Super Freak by Rick James. If, as Jack Halberstam writes, failure can be a strange but beautiful and liberating art, then this film is the best illustration of this thesis. Long live the losers!

Original title: Little Miss Sunshine
Country of manufacture: USA
Year of manufacture: 2006
Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Tony Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston
Duration: 101 min.

Hall: Stolica
Lecture: American Film Festival Program Coordinator - Anna Winkler
Projection from 35 mm tape | English subtitles