(RESCHEDULED) — The Art of Negative Thinking

This screen­ing has been RESCHED­ULED from its orig­i­nal date of July 21, 2025.

SUM­MER CIN­E­MA IN THE KASÁR­NA COURT­YARD IS BACK!

Prac­ti­cal information:
—sound will be trans­mit­ted via headphones
—we’re hap­py to lend you blan­kets on site
—in case of rain, the screen­ing will be can­celed; tick­ets will remain valid and a new date will be announced in time
—tick­et capac­i­ty: 200
—tick­et price: 150 CZK

The Art of Neg­a­tive Thinking
Bård Breien — Nor­way — 2006 — 79 min­utes — Nor­we­gian with Czech subtitles

Geirr is 33 years old. Two years ago, he had a car acci­dent that left him unable to walk — and impo­tent. His wife Ingvild, des­per­ate to save their fail­ing mar­riage, invites a group of peo­ple with phys­i­cal dis­abil­i­ties for an extend­ed vis­it, led by an enthu­si­as­tic psy­chol­o­gist named Tori. But Geirr, a self-destruc­tive fan of John­ny Cash and war movies, rebels against this unwel­come inva­sion of ​“pos­i­tive” ener­gy. Armed with bru­tal hon­esty, he tries to take con­trol of the sit­u­a­tion. Over the course of one night in a mod­ern house in a qui­et neigh­bor­hood, the group con­fronts fake sin­cer­i­ty, suf­fo­cat­ing com­pas­sion, and seem­ing­ly proven meth­ods of emo­tion­al heal­ing. In his direc­to­r­i­al debut, Bård Breien blends the famil­iar for­mu­la of Scan­di­na­vian psy­cho­log­i­cal dra­ma about human rela­tion­ships with a sar­cas­ti­cal­ly dark com­e­dy shot in a raw, qua­si-doc­u­men­tary style. The film’s unique tone is enhanced by a music selec­tion for true con­nois­seurs — fea­tur­ing Step­pen­wolf, Nina Simone, and, of course, John­ny Cash.