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Jan Svěrák's low-budget road movie, turning on the simple plot of two friends driving FROM one southern Bohemia village to the next. The plot thickens when they meet a young female hitchhiker who is being pursued by a jealous lover. (official distributor synopsis)
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Without Buty, sulfur on matches, Jan’s Mazda is parked on the street. Capturing the spirit of the times through the lens of summer heat, inner freedom, and sometimes poser-like carefreeness fails in what defines the path. The characters. They were so insubstantial to me that, if it were possible, the wind would have blown them out through a skylight. Born to Be Mild.
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Three turbulent elements that I definitely wouldn't want to know in real life, but in the movie I observed them fanatically. They all annoyed me, but the mood, in which music, summer, freedom, wantonness, and especially the nineties are all combined in the first few minutes, won me over. In any period before or after them, The Ride would probably just become an empty buddy movie, but after almost thirty years, it still has something to say.
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I had never seen The Ride before, so I finally had to remedy that. You know about the film, occasionally catch a scene on TV, but gradually realize that the film is slipping away from you. Well-crafted characters who play on the fact that their performers are quite uninhibited, almost not acting at all. In their company, you can endure the film and wait to see what happens next. The dialogues are surprisingly clever, almost existential. This is definitely not just an average road movie; there's something more to it. And finally, the soundtrack by Buty is simply unforgettable. That song is depressingly mellow, just like the entire film.
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From the times of Svěrák's 'Jízda,' we know that a film can be made in our country for just a million, but this encounter with a Czech road movie didn't offer much more. If I were to be critical, I would say that this is what perfect film emptiness looks like. Comparisons to 'Bezstarostná jízda' (The Ride), which were mentioned in several comments, seem almost offensive to me, and as a generational statement, 'Jízda' doesn't work at all. Simply put, it doesn't have much to offer; the music from the Buty band is too little for a cinematic experience. Overall impression: 30% (just to fit into 2 stars and not be accused of harming Czech cinema).
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This Czech road film does not do much for me, although it is a very interesting film with decent actors and a good atmosphere. But apart from the notorious opening song and the feeling of driving "from nowhere to nowhere", there was nothing left in me, except perhaps a kind of reverberation of summer comfort and a few strange Pastrňák catchphrases. A good film that I'm not going to watch again...
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