Bath Film Festival 2008
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a tyden divu)
Jaromil Jires
Czechoslovakia | 1970 | 73m | 15Central United Reformed Church
Friday 31 October, 10.45pm
£4 / £3
With: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anyzová, Petr Kopriva
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at tickets.comOne of the last films of the Czech ‘New Wave', and one of the most influential fantasies ever made, Valerie is an intoxicating gothic fable about a 13 year-old girl beset by bizarre erotic dreams in which she is constantly pursued by a sinister array of lecherous authority figures. Schallerová, (13 at the time) gives an extraordinary performance, effortlessly expressing the confusion, anxieties, and wonders of a girl at the onset of womanhood. Mixing horror, fairytale, surrealism and Freudian symbolism, it's another wonder that the film was ever made in a climate of Soviet suppression! Jires manages to successfully combine the ethereal with the grotesque (think Alice in Wonderland meets Nosferatu). Add breathtaking visuals and a remarkable score and ‘its overall effect is stunning' - Time Out. VT/SR
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