Rozmarné léto (1968)

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   nbats

   https://youtu.be/yjaKvmD0xV8
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   Play subs with VLC or Penguin. 3 years 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Not gonna lie, after about 15 minutes I rewound Capricious Summer and started it again, having failed to get a handle on it. Some movies are like that and though I think maybe I'd have to have been raised in communist Czechoslovakia to get the underlying symbolism of it, once I really paid attention, I found the deadpan humor of Jiří Menzel's little film quite amusing. While the characters wax philosophical like we're in a Godard film, and have the look and mild tendency for slapstick the Three Stooges do, the wit is right out of Oscar Wilde, and the film's aesthetic out of 1960s holiday snaps. I was more taken by the earthy and honest character of the wife than the three friends or the sexy circus girl they try to woo because there was a reality to her, and when I say the metaphors just escape me, I can still kind of make out their shapes in the distance. The one that does resonate with me is the director himself doing a high-wire balancing act on screen, which seems to be an admission that this genre mish-mash is a precarious endeavor. Does it fall on its ass, as Menzel's character eventually does? No, I don't think so. 4 years 5 months ago

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