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A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from.
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Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders — Cineaste Magazine
Valerie, Eaglet, and Valerie's newly married friend Hedvika (Alena Stojáková) each, at different moments, assume poses of Christian martyrdom. So great is Krumbachová's attention to visual detail that even the notes Eaglet sends Valerie possess an unusual charm, written in neat capital letters, each word a different color.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) The Criterion Collection
Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world, based on a classical Czech novel of the same title. A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and a missionary have arrived in her 19th.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Directed by Jaromil Jireš • 1970 • Czechoslovakia. Starring Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anyžová, Petr Kopriva. A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream.
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I t's one of the ironies attached to Jaromil Jireš's gleefully gothic and priapic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders that it was made just as Czechoslovakia succumbed to the gray strictures of "normalization" following the Soviet invasion in 1968. Aside from the folkloric nub of the story—in which a thirteen-year-old girl is initiated into the perilous world of adult desire—little.
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Synopsis. Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Criterion Collection (Bluray Review) at Why So Blu?
Valerie and her Week of Wonders, a Czech film about an adolescent girl and her fantasies about vampirism, is so fey and kitsch as hardly to be retained upon the retina, let alone survive in the.
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Related to Valerie and her Week of Wonders: The Firemen's Ball [1967] - A Bewitching Satire on Human Frailties and Political Groupthink Valerie seems to be battling evil forces or perhaps her own demons (of which the 'weasel' is possibly a supernatural extension) as she endeavors to come to terms with blood dripping off from daisies, signalling the intrusion of adulthood.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders — Cineaste Magazine
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a 1970 Czechoslovak surrealist fantasy horror film directed by Jaromil Jireš, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Vítězslav Nezval. It is considered part of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. The film portrays the heroine as living in a disorienting dream, cajoled by priests, vampires, and men and women alike.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Criterion Collection (Bluray Review) at Why So Blu?
Streaming charts last updated: 1:23:07 PM, 12/12/2023. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is 1259 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 389 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Chaw but less popular than Tiger House.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) directed by Jaromil Jireš • Reviews, film + cast
Jaromil Jireš's Czechoslovak New Wave fantasy Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is now available in Blu-ray and DVD Criterion editions. http://www.criterion.co.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (the original title is Valerie A Týden Divů — "Valerie and a Week of Wonders") is a Surrealist Czech New Wave horror/fantasy film from 1970, directed by Jaromil Jireš and based on the novel of the same name by Vitezslav Nezval. The plot, as far as can be discerned, concerns young teenage Valerie, who lives with her severely prim grandmother.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czech: Valerie a týden divů) is a novel by surrealist Czech writer Vítězslav Nezval, written in 1935 and first published ten years afterward in 1945.The avant-garde experimental novel was written before Nezval's dramatic shift to Socialist Realism.It was made into a 1970 Czech film directed by Jaromil Jireš, a prominent example of Czech New Wave cinema.