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 grandmother dies, with the hopes of better understanding her by understanding the hardships she endured. Grief is A Real Pain The film follows David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they reconnect through the recent death of their grandmother and embark on a Holocaust tour after not seeing each other for six years. The pair is close, but they’re also direct opposites.…
