Showing posts with label Czech New Wave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Czech New Wave. Show all posts

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Valerie a Týden Divu [Valerie and Her Week of Wonders], Jaromil Jires, 1970

Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.














Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Sedmikrasky, Vera Chytilová, 1966

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.