Valerie and her week of wonders = Valerie a týden divů / Janus Films ; Central Film Distribution presents ; screenplay by Ester Krumbachová, Jaromil Jireš ; dialouge by Jiří Musil ; produced by Jiří Becka ; directed by Jaromil Jireš.
Edition:
DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2015
Description:
1 videodisc (76 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on a story by Vítězslav Nezvala. DVD release of the 1970 motion picture. Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; Short films (by director Jaromil Jires): Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), The hall of lost footsteps (1960); Resurrecting the avant-garde (interview with film historian Peter Hames); Jaroslava Schallerová (2006 interview with the actor about her role in the film, by Pavel Křemen); Jan Klusák (2006 interview with the actor about the making of the film by Pavel Křemen); The Valerie project score (alternate 2007 psycho-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project); More than a soundtrack: the Valerie Project (a new video piece on the music's origins); New English subtitle translation. Insert includes an essay by critic Jana Prikryl. Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýžová, Petr Kopřiva, Jiří Prýmek, Jan Klusák, Libuše Komancová, Karel Engel, Alena Stojáková, Otto Hradecký, Martin Wielgus, Jiřina Machalická, Michaela Klocová, Zdenka Kovářová, Bedřiška Chalupská, Robert Nezval.
Summary:
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies.
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