I had a hard time with this.
It's like "Playtime," yeah, but instead of just Hulot being lost and disoriented, it's literally everyone. And even the whimsy is depressing. And everyone's an asshole, or in pain, or selfish, or lying, or duplicitous, or in deep need for something they're never going to get.
And also there's a fair amount of what looks today like child abuse.
That said, as a Soviet-era absurdist horror film, I didn't hate it. Vera Chytilova clearly knows what she's doing.
I had a hard time with this.
It's like "Playtime," yeah, but instead of just Hulot being lost and disoriented, it's literally everyone. And even the whimsy is depressing. And everyone's an asshole, or in pain, or selfish, or lying, or duplicitous, or in deep need for something they're never going to get.
And also there's a fair amount of what looks today like child abuse.
That said, as a Soviet-era absurdist horror film, I didn't hate it. Vera Chytilova clearly knows what she's doing.
