Daisies
September 9 - 15, 2022
If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance. New 4k restoration.
Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously. Daisies is an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema. Restored in 4K from the original camera and sound negatives by the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in collaboration with the Národní filmový archiv, Prague and the Czech Film Fund.
- Original Language Title: Sedmikrásky
- Director: Věra Chytilová
- Principal Cast: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Year: 1966
- Running Time: 76 min.
- Screenplay: Ester Krumbachová, Věra Chytilová
- Cinematographers: Jaroslav Kučera
- Editors: Miroslav Hájek
- Music: Jiří Šust, Jiří Šlitr
- Language: Czech
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- US Distributor: Janus