 | MOVIE #1,140 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 09.06.23 At some point this goes from confusing fun to inscrutable madness. (I think it was around the point when the lead actress isn’t freaked out at all after finding her grandma transformed into a vampire in a tomb coffin and then a younger version of said grandma showing up pretending to be a distant cousins and attempting to make out with her, but maybe I'm just a prude or something!) Also when it became a full-on vampire movie… yeah, I didn’t see that coming. Good luck making heads or tails of the plot and/or purpose, but it's still pretty cool to look at and I'm sure assigning whatever overarching theme you want is easy as pie too so knock yourself out in that department! While it's definitely a horny movie, its sexuality, despite touching on incestuous and sapphic themes, seems weirdly guarded. Even the title is a big head scratcher because the passing of time ("week") seems non-existent/arbitrary and most of what transpires could easily be described as horrors just as easily as "wonders." But who am I to question early 70s Czech cinema in the end??? |
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czech: Valerie a týden divů) is a 1970 Czechoslovak surrealist fantasy horror film directed by Jaromil Jireš, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Vítězslav Nezval. It is considered part of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. The film portrays the heroine as living in a disorienting dream, cajoled by priests, vampires, and men and women alike. The film blends elements of the fantasy and gothic horror film genres. It was released on October 16, 1970.
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