Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Kingdom of Heaven 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Feb 2024

  Director's cut

• 

  When the Cat Comes 1963

  ★★★½ Rewatched 05 Apr 2023

  "Cassandra the Cat" is a fascinating piece of genre-blending cinema, both serving as a delightful escapist comedy, a low fantasy romance and as a clever parable on state communism. Shot in the incredibly picturesque old town of Telč, the film plays as a live-action modern fairytale brimming with charm and timeless atmosphere.

  This film, which won Vojtěch Jasný the Special Jury Prize in Cannes, is not only an essential Czechoslovak film from the 60’s, it’s a must-watch for any cinephile,…

Popular reviews

• 

  Angi Vera 1978

  ★★★★ Watched 05 May 2020

  Set in 1948, the film tells the story about a young orphaned girl who's sent to a Communist boarding school in order to become a “good Communist”. Vera starts out as an innocent creature - director Gábor reportedly instructed the actress to think of Vera as a tender kitten. However, in the course of her training, Vera’s desperate need for love and appreciation makes her highly impressionable for Communist propaganda. She’s gradually moulded to become a blindly loyal apparatchik, illustrated…

• 

  Desire 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 26 May 2021

  Desire is a 1958 anthology film about the circle of life, set in a rural village. The four episodes represent the four seasons, kicking off with blooming spring and ending in snowy winter. The first protagonist is a young boy, the next a teenage girl, then a middle-aged woman and finally an old woman. The summer tale concerns a 17-year-old girl falling in love for the first time. The episode features future movie star Jana Brejchová and a lot of…