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"Daisies"
1966
Directed by Vera Chytilova
Two uninhibited young women (both named Marie) turn
against the numbing state of society in a madcap flurry of pranks and
material destruction. Beneath the outrageous surface of this avant-garde
comedy is a defiant feminist statement and an acknowledgement of the
desperation that goes hand-in-hand with rebellion--a state of mind
represented by one girl's attempted suicide. The film so unsettled Czech
government officials (and a great many other men) that its release was
held up for a year. "...the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie
of the 1960s" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films). Czech
with English subtitles. 74 minutes.
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