Mucedníci Lásky (Martyrs of Love) - Jan Němec

di Jan Němec penso tutto il bene possibile, e anche di più.
i suoi film sono stati vietati per sempre dagli occupanti del patto di varsavia, nell'agosto del 1968.
il sempre poi è diventato il 1989.
Jan Němec ha fatto pochi film, e grandissimi.
questo, che sembra un film minore, è girato a Praga nel 1967, sono tre episodi che si riuniscono nella bellissima passeggiata finale.
dentro ci sono, tra le altre cose, la musica, l'amore, Magritte, la bellezza e la libertà, almeno nei sogni.
me lo sono guardato due volte in due giorni, come un bicchiere d'acqua fresca d'estate.
cercatelo e godetene tutti - Ismaele

… The first segment deals with temptation, and features a timid young desk clerk (Petr Kopriva) who dresses like Magritte's Son of Man. It follows a day in his life which eventually leads him to an upscale nightclub where he is too shy to approach anyone. Interestingly, there are brief cameos from Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová, who reprise their roles from Daisies; and British actor Lindsay Anderson makes a small appearance as well.

The second short is a young serving girl's (Hana Kuberová) erotic daydream. It's filled with lush imagery and hidden sexual symbolism as she fantasizes about falling in love with a rich noble, then a military general, and finally a gipsy guitar player. Famous Czech singer Karel Gott shows up in this as a wedding singer.

The last episode follows the adventures of a lonely man named Rudolf (Josef Konícek), he finds himself taken in by a bizarre hedonistic family who has mistaken him for someone else named Jakub. The weakest of the trio, it's essentially an absurd comedy sketch inspired by slapstick silent films, but is only ever mildly funny and feels very self indulgent…

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Czech comical-art-house triptych by Nemec on the topic of love, with homages to old cinema and light symbolic/surrealist touches. The first story involves a young working man with lustful daydreams, his view constantly haunted by glimpses of lovers, women and their body parts, his workplace surrealistically populated with rows of glaring secretaries. The second involves a young woman with romantic fantasies over a celebrity singer, who is forcefully pushed into a marriage with a man who wants to symbolically shoot down her travelling suitcase. The third tells the adventure of a tramp-like character who gets invited into a rich house where they give him free clothes and female attention. Minimal dialogue, lots of music, light Czech new-wave fun.

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