Jan Cimbura
1941
8
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.
Jan Cimbura
1941
8
The Day of the Locust
1975
6
Ossessione
1944
7
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969
6
Stay Hungry
1976
5
Assalamualaikum Beijing 2: Lost in Ningxia
2025
0
The Shipping News
2001
6
I Am Legend
2007
7
烟雨红颜
2002
5
Mudhoney
1965
6
Fanny Hill
1964
4
Axolotl Overkill
2017
5
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
0
The Great Escape
1963
7
The Reivers
1969
6
Witness for the Prosecution
1982
6
Elling
2001
7
The Alphabet Murders
1965
5
A Caribbean Mystery
1983
5
The Witches of Eastwick
1987
6