2013 · czech · comedy · opera
The Don Juans
Directed by Jiří Menzel1h 42m2013
An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their lives in spite of the opera.
Our read: The Don Juans (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded czech · comedy · opera entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle czech / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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