1998 · czech · feminist · satire
Traps
Directed by Věra Chytilová2h 4m1998
After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.
Our read: Traps (1998) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive czech · feminist · satire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured czech / feminist, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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- intense
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