Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a tA den divu)
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• Color
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1970
DVD Release : 13 January, 2004 |
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"Good Night, My Brunette" ~ Nosferatu Meets Little Red Riding Hood
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Note: Czech with English subtitles.
I would like to make two things perfectly clear at the beginning of this review. First of all, I do not claim to understand this film. Secondly, I will make no attempt whatsoever to explain the storyline. Well, maybe just a little.
The '70 film from the Czech Republic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders' which was written and directed by Jaromil Jires is quite possibly the strangest, most incomprehensible film I've ever watched. It consists of a most unlikely mixture of nostalagic musical interludes displaying childhood memories of purity and innocence; a white room where the sound of a music box adored with a spinning ballerina fills the room, beautiful, blossoming flowers fill the pathway outside the house where just beyond a brightly colored forests of amber leaves dominate the landscape.
However childhood is coming to an end for the absolutely enchanting Valerie (Jaroslava Shallerova), the process of becoming a woman has begun during a brief stroll in the yard. Now the veil of naA vete has been lifted from her eyes and visions of another kind now begin to appear and beckon in stark and horrifying juxtaposition to the world she used to know. Depraved priests and vampire-like missionaries compete for her affections while overzealous flagellants pursue the young man of her desire. To further confuse and entice poor Valerie, an intermittent band of blonde haired muses in peasant dresses roam the forest exchanging amorous embraces soon awaken a strange fascination within her.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders' is visually stunning to the point of intoxication, yet totally incoherent in storyline. While the viewer is transfixed by the presence of the lovely Jaroslava one is left to feel captive to an onslaught of vampirism, voyeurism, sadomasochism, lesbianism and depravity. Truly the most voyeuristic film I've ever watched. This one is definitely for a very select, artistically oriented audience, file it away in your DVD case next to Fellini's Satyricon'. |
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