À cause des filles..?
A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
IFFR 2020
The name of Karel Vachek, cinessayisthors des normes, is rarely mentioned when talk turns to cinema's victims in the Prague Spring's suppression and the ČSSR's subsequent 'Normalisation' process. After the suppression of his first feature, Spřízněni volbou (1968), it wasn't until 1992 that he was able to release another film. Nový Hyperion aneb Volnost, rovnost, bratrství is in some ways a longer version of his debut.
In the decades since, Vachek released five more works. These caustically epic films offer insights into the Czech Republic's development as an independent nation. Or more precisely: the Czech Republic becomes an especially curious example of the way the world has turned under Liberalism. Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy feels like the sum total of Vachek's cinema: a classification-defying behemoth of a film, ironic, ferocious, ballsy – the way public intellectuals rarely are these days.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
A contemporary film programme about the gaze of the old filmmaker, showing that the creative urge still burns as brightly as 50 years ago.
Read more about this programmeA wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.
76'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.
124'
France
IFFR 2020