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Daisies (1966)

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If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over? Matching her anarchic message with an equally radical aesthetic, director Věra Chytilová, with the close collaboration of cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera, unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts, and surreal costumes designed by Ester Krumbachová, who also cowrote the script. The result is Daisies, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, an exuberant call to rebellion aimed squarely at those who uphold authoritarian oppression in any form.

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Director Véra Chytilová
Actor Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková, Jirina Myskova, Marcela Brezinová
 
Genre Comedy
Content DVD
FSK / age rating from age 0
Publication date 30.10.2001
Audio Czech
Subtitles English
Length 74 Minutes
Year of production 1966
Original title Sedmikrásky
Version US Version
Region code 1
 

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  • genial

    Written on 28. January 2010 by voiceofeye.

    ein sehr inspirierender film aus einer inspirierten zeit - ein muss

  • Kult!

    Written on 25. January 2010 by Beatles 66.

    Meisterwerk der Tschechoslowakischen Neuen Welle. (1966) Muss man gesehen haben!

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