Daisies
Two cute girls, in cute clothes, doing cute things. Juuuuust kidding! Sedmikrasky is the story of two young women, going about their daily business. Apparently their daily business consists of sunning themselves while discussing the meaning of life, love, and politics, getting foolish old men to buy them lunch, getting in enormous food fights, and just being "bad" in general. These nihilistic ladies have decided that since the rest of the world has gone bad, they might as well go bad too.
The story telling was very non-linear, only following a loose plot throughout the film. The imagery and editing were fantastic! Very Dada. Lots of symbolism, ie. the cutting of the sausage whilst blonde Marie's suitor is professing his undying love for her. I think it's very rare that you see a movie featuring two women (or really, just two people in general) being completely silly, yet entertaining and thought-provoking. That it was directed by a woman in a time when there probably weren't tons of women making films, let alone being so rebellious and experimental and having so little to derive inspiration from makes it that much more special. I am curious as to whether this movie was an inspiration to Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett when they were doing the Tank Girl comics?
Grade: A+
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