Taking a look online for Czech films,I discovered a Czech New Wave (CNW) titled that the up-loader had highlighted as featuring," corrected, conversational subtitles." Being interested in seeing the "correct" version of the title,I decided that it was time to pick up the daisies.
The plot:
Sitting around having robotic conversations,Marie and Marie decide that it is time for them to go bad.Joining wealthy men in night clubs and for meals,the Marie's soon reveal that they will not conform to men's images of them at all.
View on the film:
Whirling round the Marie's in strutted camera moves,co- writer/(along with Ester Krumbachová & Pavel Jurácek) director Vera Chytilová (who dedicates the film to the censors on screen!) slices "Dada" stylishness with a Silent Movie playfulness.Tinting the film in rustic blues, reds and a constant switching between grainy black and white and vivid colour film stock, Chytilová and cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera spin a disorientating atmosphere,by circling inanimate objects from a Dada edge whilst blunt CNW edits cut into the Silent Movie tints with a mischief making grin.
Hit with a ban by the government for "depicting the wanton",the screenplay by Chytilová, Krumbachová and Jurácek slides the CNW into surrealism,as the Marie's personalities are kept vague,and the writers focus on the reverse-sex indulgences that the Marie's partake in.Returning to some of the set-piece locations, Chytilová hits out at the ruling Communist Party's idea of conformity,thanks to Chytilová (who got banned from working again in the country until 1975) rubbing the rebellious, non- conformist attitudes of the Marie's,as Chytilová pulls the daisies of the Czech New Wave.
The plot:
Sitting around having robotic conversations,Marie and Marie decide that it is time for them to go bad.Joining wealthy men in night clubs and for meals,the Marie's soon reveal that they will not conform to men's images of them at all.
View on the film:
Whirling round the Marie's in strutted camera moves,co- writer/(along with Ester Krumbachová & Pavel Jurácek) director Vera Chytilová (who dedicates the film to the censors on screen!) slices "Dada" stylishness with a Silent Movie playfulness.Tinting the film in rustic blues, reds and a constant switching between grainy black and white and vivid colour film stock, Chytilová and cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera spin a disorientating atmosphere,by circling inanimate objects from a Dada edge whilst blunt CNW edits cut into the Silent Movie tints with a mischief making grin.
Hit with a ban by the government for "depicting the wanton",the screenplay by Chytilová, Krumbachová and Jurácek slides the CNW into surrealism,as the Marie's personalities are kept vague,and the writers focus on the reverse-sex indulgences that the Marie's partake in.Returning to some of the set-piece locations, Chytilová hits out at the ruling Communist Party's idea of conformity,thanks to Chytilová (who got banned from working again in the country until 1975) rubbing the rebellious, non- conformist attitudes of the Marie's,as Chytilová pulls the daisies of the Czech New Wave.