Eisenberg's film follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp. The story draws on his own family history — and his struggle with OCD.

A Real Pain” follows cousins David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) as they embark on a tour across Poland to discover more about their Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and visit their recently deceased grandmother’s childhood home.

Best known for this starring role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg writes ... but decided to relocate it to Poland when he saw an advertisement for “Auschwitz tours ...

Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain begins and ends ... Their grandmother’s death sends the cousins to Poland, ostensibly to honour her memory by reconnecting with their Jewish roots.

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Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain technically came out last year - although it only just released here in Luxembourg. This timing actually makes sense: January isn’t exactly a season of high cinema,

Jesse Eisenberg, best known for The Social Network ... It revolves around two cousin brothers who take a trip through Poland after the passing of their grandmother who was a holocaust survivor.

Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing in the writer-director chair is a meditation on grief and historical pain that manages to evade the Hollywood question-answer cliche. A Real Pain follows two Jewish American cousins who travel through Poland after their ...

While Jesse Eisenberg's David is perhaps the "everyman" and the audience's entry point into the story, Benji is the heart of A Real Pain. Watching his layers of trauma and emotionality unfold throughout the film's 90-minute runtime is deeply moving, especially his devastated reaction to visiting a former Nazi concentration camp.

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