Отзывы людей, которые были на просмотре и Q&A "Маленького одолжения".

cumberenthusiast

So, let’s start from the beginning. It was Sunday, 27th of April when the information that BC is coming to Poland was released. The excitement, the mayhem that followed this information… I knew I have to be there. But how am I going to go to Cracow? The planning, the reading everything Off-related resulted in me going to Cracow to buy a pass that would allow me to pick up a zero-ticket for Little Favour and Q&A with Sunny March. I was incredibly happy, Off volunters were nice, helpful and I really enjoyed talking with them. But on the 7th of May, shit started to go down.
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You see, when I was at the festival center, I asked when the zero-tickets are going to be released. They said that the day before and on the day of the screening. I called them once again on the 6th of May, and they confirmed that information. So I bought the train ticket on the very early hours of Friday and booked a hotel for a Friday/Saturday night. The next day there was an information that the tickets are going to be released a day earlier, both on the internet and at the festival center. Needless to say, I was extremely pissed. I tried to get a ticket online, but with no luck. So, the only thing I could do, was to go to Cracow as I planned and try to get a ticket at the festival center.

I was in Cracow at 8 am, the festival center was open from 10 am. Easy peasy, I was 17th in the queue and everything was in bright pink colours. Met the fans queueing outside with me, talked, had fun. When the Center was about to be opened we formed a nice line, we were quiet and just waited for our turn. The first 5 people went inside. But then it happened. The first 5 came out, incredibly pissed, some even crying. There were no tickets, everything was taken online. We think, that’s impossible, there were 80 tickets to be taken and it’s like 2 minutes afret 10, at most. We argued, tried to explain the whole situation, but we still left empty handed. But hey, tomorrow we’re going to be under the cinema and maybe catch a glimpse of our favourite actor.

The only reason I had fun that day was because I hanged out with newly-made cumberfan friends. We fixed presents for Sunny March, went on a walk, had drinks and it was just awesome. We parted and went to our hotels/homes, tomorrow was going to be a busy day.

We slept about 4 hours, woke up, had a wash, dressed and left for the cinema. We were barely conscious but hey, CUMBERBATCH! We waited, they, as the fan-organizers of the event had full hands. I just moped, because like seriously, they are all going inside and I’m left standing in front of the cinema with last threads of hope to see him. Everything was supposed to start at 11 but there were no signs of the guests. Finally, 20-minutes late they arrived, bu the security didn’t allow any interaction and they were hauled into the cinema immediately. So I moped some more, because I just heard him.

You probably think, yeah, another sad post. But that’s when a complete and total miracle happened. I looked in the direction of the entrance and saw that people without tickets were allowed to come in. Needless to say, I ran the fastest in my life and somehow got in, just in time fot the Little Favour screening. I didn’t believe my luck, I’m still shaking a bit when I think about that. I made it, after all this trouble I made it. Little Favour is even more sunning on the big screen, the applause was thunderous. When the lights were turned back on and the crew were invited to the stage, the giddy excitement was hanging in the air. The now famous quote, “Fuck this shit” was the absolute highlight of the whole event, as it was also a political statement so close to every Polish heart. Please, we love swearing and we hate Putin, so it was the best thing that could happen to us. There were only two or three fan questions, unfortunately, but then the award was given and BC left his palm prints so they can be put in the hall of fame in cracow (we are already planning a pilgrimage to high five those yaoi hands).

Now, I know some peole are terribly mad that he didn’t come out after the Q&A and talk to fans. The thing is, he wanted to, he told the fans he will, he even went in the direction of the crowd, but the security packed him and the rest of the crew to a car and drove away. He was incredibly pissed because of that. I got this information later on, but apparently in the contract he signed with Off was that he’s not allowed any fan meetings/signing autographs/photos with fans. The lucky few caught him when he was out sighseeing the previous night.

So, back to the story. At the Q&A Nick Moran said that his movie is being shown later that day at the cinema near the festival center. Most of the people i hanged out with was like naaaah, I don’t feel like it, but me and three other people bought the tickets because why not, it’s Nick Moran. When we were going to choose our places (the tickets are without any assigned seats) we saw that there are 4 seats reserved. So, naturally, we sat right behind those reserved seats, because why not. And that was a fantastic decision, because right before the movie was about to start we heard fangirl screams outiside and a minute later, the whole of Sunny March came in and ocupied the reserved seats. I was sat right behind Benedict Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland (had some serious urges to reach out and ruffle his hair, it’s SO FLUFFY). Also, a side note to cumberbum, the specs look really good irl, they actually fit him. The pictures lie, all of them. The movie was… absolutely fantastic. And not just because I was sat behind those pretty bastards, it was brutal, sad and ultimately true. If you have an option, go and see it, it’s called The Kid, it’s a book adaptation and it’s gut-wrecking, as a movie about abusive childhood and not only childhood should be. After the movie ended there was a Q&A with Moran, he’s such a nice and witty guy. I also got an autograph and a friend of mine took a picture (still waiting for it) and it was so AWESOME. One of my friens present at The Kid screening asked BC if there is going to be a fan meeting, and heard I hope so. After the screening we went for drinks (and took napkinselfies - lots of confusing profile pictures on fb now). And that’s when I heard that, in fact, we were allowed by BC himself to go and meet with him. So, as we knew in which hotel he stayed in, we went there and waited for him to come down to us. And you know what? He did. It was late, like half past ten, the moon was shining and me and about 20 other fans stood in front of his hotel and talked with him for like 15 minutes (we were not allowed to take any photographs and he didn’t sign anything though). He was super nice, told us that such settings where we just talk and he doesn’t have to sign anything like a machine is so much better, joked with us, (had his blue shirt on so we were happy, we saw a legend), when he heard we gave a present for him to someone from the festival crew he was genuinely interested and promised to look into it. Also, he said that the greatest present we can give him is to give money to a charity of our choice. When we told him we collectively, as polish fans bought the cool to be kind bracelets (about 150 people, maybe even more bought them) he was really moved. After some time he said he has to go and talk with the festival people (they said he mentioned us and was thrilled and very happy because of this meeting - the best information we colud receive) and we waved him goodbye, wished luck and thanked for coming to Poland. Once he was away we screamed, hugged, cried and just let our happiness show. The same night me and about 6 other fans took a bus to Warsaw (slept all the journey - and the next day to be honest).

To summarise: went to Cracow without any hope. Was pissed at the Off-people for their shitty organisational skills, met fantastic people and met Sunny March crew, more than once. Best weekend EVER


benedictsherllock



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Yeah, I got back from Cracow. I had the best two days of my life and I really don’t know where to start.
This photo is the only one I was able to take before my camera decided to turn off and die. That’s why it looks really bad.
My god I really don’t know where to start or what to say. There are so many emotions and thoughts and I still can’t believe it. I met so many wonderful people, I saw Little Favour [again] and I met Benedict. Me and few other people, we talked to him on the street not far from where he stayed. It was almost 11 pm. Why so late and why on the street? Because yes, he wanted to meet with fans earlier, but his bodyguards didn’t want him to meet us. He wasn’t happy about it, and we were really disappointed…
We talked with Benedict for the longest 15 minutes of my life. About Poland, about Cracow, Hamlet, about everything. He was so happy to finally be able to meet us, and believe me, when he laughs with you and looks you straight in the eye [as he did with me, for example] you’ll never forget this moment. And I’ll never forget.
The next day, we talked to one of the people from Benedict’s staff [at least I think so] and this person told us that he was delighted after our meeting. I really don’t know what more I can say. He’s the kindest, funniest, smartest and most charming person I’ve met, and no one will convince me otherwise.


holmesandwhatson

Hello everyone, so this is my account of the Saturday’s Little Favour screening and Q&A I went there together with my friend, tenlittlebirds, who had managed to buy a special pass and get a “zero ticket” for the screening (which was not that easy because there was a huge interest and only around 800 tickets.). I won my ticket in a contest one week ago. We are both from Warsaw so we decided to go to Krakow on Friday because the screening was planned for Saturday morning. The tickets were (un)fortunately non-numbered so everybody had to wake up early and stand in a queue. We arrived at the cinema at about 7 am and it turned out that there were already about 80 people in front of us. But if you take into account the whole number of seats that was not so bad. Luckily, a small group of lovely fans made a special list with all the names, so we could take a walk and didn’t have to wait in the queue the whole time. About an hour before the meeting we all formed a long, long line along the whole street (you can imagine the faces of those passers-by who didn’t know what was going on and those without tickets were waiting in front of the cinema. The queue entered the cinema before the arrival of our guests, so we welcomed them inside. I and tenlittlebirds were happily sitting in the 5th row, which was very close to the stage.
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We watched the film and then there was a little talk/interview conducted by Elvis Mitchell. He asked some interesting questions but I read that there will be an official video coverage of the meeting so I think I won’t write everything here because there is too much of it. Generally, Benedict was the one who talked the most and there was quite much laughter - e.g. the moment I’ve already shared with you here or when one of the guests (I don’t remeber who it was, probably Nick Moran) mentioned Putin’s ban on swearing, to which Benedict quickly reacted: “Fuck. This. Shit.” :p They all shared with us some interesting facts about Little Favour filming and explained why and how they came to Poland (it was Nick Moran who was partly responsible for this ). Oh, and important information: Benedict looked very dapper in his elegant suit and shiny shoes (I really love shiny shoes After the main interview there were about 3 questions from the audience. The first person asked Benedict how he would define acting (because Kim Cattrall, another guest of the festival, compared it to flying). I found a video with his lovely answer here (thank you to the person who shared it!).

Another question was about one scene in Little Favour and I can’t remember the answer now but I’m sure there is a video with it as well. At the end of the meeting Benedict was given Against the Current Award and cast his handprints. When the meeting ended, my friend and I were both thrilled and happy that we took part in it but at the same time we felt a bit sad that it was already over However, we planned to go home in the evening so we still had some time left and decided to spend the afternoon in another cinema. We agreed that it would be great to see at least one more film before going back to Warsaw. We chose Nick Moran’s “The Kid”, a screening to which he invited us during the Little Favour’s Q&A. He said something like “come, we will all be there” but I somehow didn’t understand that he really meant them all. I mean, I didn’t expect them all to appear, I thought that what he said was just a manner of speech or sth . Anyway we went to this screening room, it turned out to be really small, there were about 100 seats. I noticed a nice row to sit, but with a “reservation” sign on a few seats so I told my friend to sit in the row below but she said “no, come closer to the screen” and we moved two or three rows forwards. After about a quarter we suddenly heard a big applause from the outside of the building and a few moments later Nick Moran, Benedict, Adam Ackland and I think Adam Selves too, entered the room And obviously they sat in the row behind the one we almost chose We both felt really sorry for Benedict when everybody in front of us started to make hundreds of photos the moment he entered the room. We know that it is a part of his job and he is probably used to it but it must be really tiresome that you can’t go anywhere without being observed and photograpped The film itself was so very moving, I almost cried. I really enjoyed it and was glad that I came to see it. I recommend it to you all.

At the end there was another Q&A - this time Nick Moran answered all the questions. I liked the atmosphere of this screening, it was something completely different to this big meeting in the morning, everything was much more..”cosy”? there was more room for interaction between the guest and the audience. Again, there were some funny moments and answers and we all laughed a bit When the meeting started to end, I quietly hoped that maybe, just maybe, there would be a possibility to approach Benedict after the screening. I didn’t want photos or autographs, I just wanted to say a few words about how much I admire his work and how happy I am to see him in my country, but he and his friends quickly left the cinema after the Q&A. Still, I thought I was very lucky to be there, both at this screening and at the meeting in the morning. I appreciate all that and I think it was worth this little trip. Of course I felt a bit sad that there was no opportunity to talk to him and it’s still my dream to tell him personally how important his work is to me (it would be nothing new for him to hear but it would mean the world to me but I am aware that there are so many people out there who would love to do so as well, and many others who wanted to come to Krakow too, but couldn’t make it. That’s why I’m incredibly grateful that I won the ticket, that I could come and take part in this event. And I still hope that some day I will have another opportunity to talk to my favourite actor

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