Daisies constitutes a unique moment in Czech film, but one to which the years have not been kind. The most stylistically adventurous product of the Czech New Wave, Vera Chytilová’s would-be anarchic satire comes off today as something of a psychedelic relic, a noisily experimental wallow in the disjointed antics of two teenagers named Marie (Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová), whose response to a spoiled, destructive world is to be the most spoiled, destructive brats in it. They tease older men, muse abstractedly and stuff their faces amid much Dada and Day-Glo, culminating in an orgiastic pig-out at a sumptuous banquet that, the movie's final shot implies, is just a step down the socio-behavioral ladder from carpet-bombing other countries. Read More

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Sedmikrásky (Daisies), By Andy Markowitz
Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966), By Marilyn Ferdinand

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