A beloved classic among first-year film students and revered by experts of the Czech New Wave (it came sixth in a recent BBC poll on women directors’ 100 best works), daisies is a cheeky absurdist farce about two spoiled girls (both named Marie) who decide that since the world has gone rotten they must become rotten too. It’s a playful, anarchic piece of cinema, and Janus Films has just unveiled a vibrant, galvanizing trailer for the 4K restoration launching in New York (with runs in LA and Chicago) this week.
The film was made during the brief thaw of creative freedom before the Warsaw Pact and subsequent Normalization in 1968, and it wasn’t well-received in communist Czechoslovakia (it was banned for depicting food waste, and Chytilova was blacklisted; she directed commercials under another name for a decade to make ends meet). However, the movie quickly became a feminist cult work and established Chytilova as one of the movement’s most important directors.
The script by Ester Krumbachova and Vera Chytilova is full of provocative nihilist themes, but what really sets it apart from the other Czech New Wave films that preceded it was the bold visual aesthetic Chytilova created with her sisters Jitka Cerhova and Ivana Karbanova. The sisters dress in discarded dresses, play pranks, and take delight in ignoring “no entry” signs; they treat their home as a kind of art installation where sculptural objects can be manipulated to evoke specific emotions. Food is also a major theme in the movie, and the sisters use it to create a vision of beauty in a world that expects conformity and discards individual identities.
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