Boomer core cinema
Věra Chytilová is often considered a feminist filmmaker even though she would always reject being labelled and called herself an “individualist”. Given the fact the Czechoslovakian communist government oppressed her for years, it’s understandable to see her desire to reject Western labels. Chytilová is best known to Western audiences for her psychedelic masterpiece Daisies, which annoyed the powers so much she could only made one film, Fruits of Paradise, in the next 9 years. In the late ‘70s her blacklisting…
Well that was a experience nearly gotten beaten up when the credits rolled for laughing hysterically at times during the film… but I wanted to hear the “special message”. I got called a pedo and coward by a absolute parody of a right-wing American in Leeds. I told him to “go back to his own country”… I have dual US/UK citizenship.
The one star is for Bill Camp who is actually kind of great as the pedo turned crusader against pedos.