Czech
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Queerguru reviews ‘I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE ‘ a memoir of queer Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková
Making a film just from photos is no easy task, and takes a great risk of whether it will succeed. Like in the case of Czech writer/director Klára Tasovská, who opted to make a memoir of Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková’s life and work through some 3000 prints. She may not be a household name to…
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Andrew Hebden reviews the urine trouble in Agnieszka Holland’s CHARLATAN
Agnieszka Holland’s biographical tale of a Czech herbal expert who makes a living diagnosing patients by their urine samples may not exactly be everyone’s cup of pee at first. However barely submerged within it is a commentary on the suffocating totalitarian regime it happens under and a pointed statement that supposedly absurd practices supported by…
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I, Olga Hepnarova
The horrifying real-life story of the mass-murderer Olga Hepnarova, who was the last woman to be hung in Czechoslovakia in 1975 aged 22 after she deliberately drove a truck through a line of people waiting at a bus-stop, makes for very bleak viewing. Shot in black and white in the bleak depressed town where this…
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Honeymoon aka Libanky
The picturesque Czech countryside is the setting for an idyllic summer wedding. It’s the second time around for Radim the groom who ended up with Dominik a 12 year old son when his first marriage ended, and also the second go for his bride Tereza who was left with a broken heart. When the wedding…
