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| "Daisies" (From 'Film as a Subversive Art') |
| (By Amos Vogel - 1974) |
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| Visually and structurally perhaps the most sensational film of the Czech film renaissance, this ia a mad, stylish, dadaist comedy, long banned by the censors. It is an orgy of spectacular visual delights, sensuous decor, and magnificent colour experiments, making a philosophical statement in the guise of a grotesque farce. Two dizzy young girls, bored and without any values, knowing neither past nor future, stumble through a bizarre series of chance pick-ups, wild adventures, eating orgies, and pie-throwing acts. Below the exaggeration, sarcasm, and exuberance lurks a serious comment on a fraudulent style of life, played in a game in which protagonists become victims. No work from the East has ever been further removed from the drab sterility of so-called 'socialist realism'. The stunning photography is by Jaroslav Kucera and the script by Ester Krumbachova, whose contributions to almost all major Czech films of the period denote her key role. (Copyright-Random House Inc., New York) |
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