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Bookmark this pageValerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Director: Jaromil Jires
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From Time Out Film Guide
Shot in the lyrical Elvira Madigan mode, this celebrates the 'first stirrings of adolescence' of a beautiful young girl in a vaguely-defined Transylvanian townscape sometime in the last century. A student of folklore and mythology could perhaps detect a logical thread in the continuous sequence of vampires, devils, black magic, ritual and dance that the film presents, but for most people it will be a simpler and undemanding pleasure to sit back and be agreeably surprised as the images unfold. There is no clearly-defined story; the film's logic is that of the subconscious, its images those of the Gothic fairytale and the psychiatrist's couch, and its overall effect is stunning.Author: JC
Cast & crew
Director: Jaromil Jires
Cast: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anyzková, Petr Kopriva, Jiri Prymek, Jan Kluzák full cast
Duration: 77 mins
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