Directed by:
Miloš FormanCinematography:
Miroslav OndříčekComposer:
Evžen IllínCast:
Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Menšík, Ivan Kheil, Jiří Hrubý, Milada Ježková, Josef Šebánek, Josef Kolb, Marie Salačová, Jana Nováková (more)VOD (1)
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Inexperienced young factory worker Andula falls for visiting pianist Milda after they spend one night together in this touching drama. Longing for Milda after he's gone away, Andula decides to track him down in Prague. (Netflix)
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The hapless and clueless Brejchová has so much of that cutely goofy esprit of rural naivety and pure femininity here that she steals every scene, even when she’s just sitting there looking confused. The rest (especially the party scene with the soldiers), as is usual with the duo of Papoušek-Forman, I finished watching practically from under the table, I felt so embarrassed. A painful study in the inability to communicate, which I would have shot into space to prevent a possible alien civilization from making its first attempt to meet humanity from anywhere outside of Žďár.
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Even though Miloš Forman didn't have sufficient resources in Czechoslovakia to make big-budget films, he managed with what he had and could thus shoot small but powerful films that brilliantly depict who the Czechs really are and what trivialities we deal with in our lives without realizing that we're harming someone by doing so.
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A story with three emotionally disparate segments: the first steeped in the awkwardness of the situation and bachelor excesses, the second marked by youthful romance and lover's platitudes, and the third on the ground of parental domination and lost illusions, and they are combined into a complex contemporary account of the fleeting and false effects of love from the position of the fairer sex. Especially in this day and age, when we see posts on Facebook from 14-year-old girls whose sensitive little hearts have been broken by their 18-year-old boyfriends, it is more than obvious how timeless and apt the film is; but that’s the case with almost all Forman’s movies.
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One of the most awkward films in Czech history. Of course in the best possible sense. Forman has civilized his form to the very limit of his possibilities, Ondříček's camera sometimes feels quite cumbersome, and the dialogues (which Forman allegedly played for the actors beforehand) are absolutely realistic and completely free of any stylization. They are simply snippets of intercepted speech, put together in situations picked up by watching that seem to lack comedy, but as soon as one listens to the stream of banalities and gray phrases, the extraordinarily rich and poetic core of the film breaks out. The film has a perfect undertone of communist uniformity, stupid brass band music, stupid melodies from television, the hum of a factory, etc. The naivety and surrender of Andula, who is adolescently naive, but at the same time beautifully cheeky and full of ideals, stands out from the monotony. However, I consider the Pucholt-Šebánek-Ježková "bed" scene to be the absolute highlight, which is an example of new wave humor. A very inconspicuous and very beautiful film.
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The Loves of a Blonde is a typical example of Miloš Forman's veristic method of filmmaking. The omnipresent sense of awkwardness and cruelty, the observations, the improvised (and often empty dialogue) between the (non!) actors, the important dance sequences and many other features that are typical of the director. Overall, the plot/story is more intense than in Peter and Pavla, but the director's crowning achievement, which rides a similar wave, remains The Firemen's Ball. Initially, the film was quite slow, gradual, even tedious, something you have to get used to, but the (almost) final bed scene is second to none in this country (and maybe even abroad). In short, a film that, while not perfect, is timeless and stands out for its directness.
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