1966 · comedy
Daisies
Directed by Věra Chytilová1h 16m1966
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Our read: Daisies (1966) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- surreal
- signature
- intimate
- funny
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How Daisies feels to watch.
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“You want anarchic Czech New Wave collage that gleefully destroys polite society.”
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