Daisies (1966)

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Czechoslovakia

Feature Film

Original Title: Sedmikrásky

Director: Vera Chytilová

Writers: Vera Chytilová, Pavel Jurácek, Ester Krumbachová

Cinematographer: Jaroslav Kucera

Composers: Jirí Slitr, Jirí Sust

Cast: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová

Formally playful, contextually dense, and often quite delightful, Chytilová’s psychedelic avant-garde experiment-cum-socio-political satire follows the exploits of two disaffected young women who, when realising that the world has gone bad, decide to go bad themselves, setting out to break all the rules of polite society, but in so doing they eventually come to question their own existence. Iain.Stott