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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
EAN: 9781565804357
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 156580435X
Label: Facets
Manufacturer: Facets
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Facets
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 86580
Studio: Facets
Theatrical Release Date: 1965
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Description:
Five directors of the internationally acclaimed Czech New Wave of the 1960’s contributed to this landmark film anthology, including Jiri Menzel (Closely Watched Trains) and Jaromil Jires (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders). Each witty, entertaining short is based on a different story by legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, renowned for his outrageous, surreal tales. Menzel sets the offbeat tone of the film with "Mr. Baltazar," about a motorcycle rally that focuses on the fans rather than the race. Next, Jan Nemec offers "The Swindlers," a bittersweet tale of two old men at the end of their lives, while Evald Schorm explores the strange life of a primitive artist in "House of Joy." Vera Chytilova tackles gender politics in "The Globe Buffet," and Jires concludes the film with "Romance," about a brief love affair between a young boy and a gypsy girl. This anthology showcased the groundbreaking styles and bold, new themes of the Czech New Wave. These young directors took advantage of a more liberal political era to make films that were daring in both content and style.
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Rating:  -
These five short films are fascinating real life events taken to the extreme which are best described as a "comic tragedies". All the shorts are based on stories written by Czech author Bohumil Hrabel. His characters are common people who overcome unusual obstacles to survive. He creatively includes peculiar twists and turns to ordinairy events which spiral into absurd comedy that also has some underlying darker elements. All of it makes for great visual entertainment. Unfortunately, he received ... Read More
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Colective film from the Czech Republic with shorts by Vera Chytilova, Jan Nemec, Jiri Menzel, Jaromil Jires and Evald Schorm inspired in five stories from the book with the same title by the czech surreal writer Bohumil Hrabal, one of the seminal writers of the Czech New Wave cinema. Good print, synthetic english translation and subtitles most of the times unsynchronized for this DVD edition.
Rating:  -
Anthology films with multiple directors are always, always, always hit-and-miss affairs, so that's not surprising about this flick.
However, it is surprising that Jiri Menzel's segment is so bland, considering he might be the best translator of Bohumil Hrabal's prose to the screen -- CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS and LARKS ON A STRING are indescribably brilliant.
Jan Nemec's segment is decent, although it seems to have lost some of its punch in translation (more on this later). ... Read More
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