Category: Czech Cinema

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  Fruit Of Paradise (1970)

  May 24, 2024

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Comedy, Czech Cinema, Drama, Existential, Fantasy, Feminist

  When it comes to the avant garde as long as it looks good, I don’t care if it’s incomprehensible. Not that I really think Czech director Věra Chytilová’s Fruit Of Paradise (1970) is incomprehensible. I have seen Chytilová’s most famous film, Daisies, twice in my life and enjoyed it. In the first ten minutes of… Read.

• The Firemen’s Ball (1967)

  September 19, 2019

  1960s, Comedy, Czech Cinema, Political, Satire

  I picked up a copy of The Firemen’s Ball (1967) last year on a whim, which is a recently restored print, purchased maybe after the passing of director Milos Forman and realising I’d not seen any of his pre-America films made in his home country of Czechoslovakia. This 71-minute film about a chaotic ball organised… Read.