Program
Mar 23, 2017 7:00 PM
VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS

FILM SERIES: CZECH WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA
WRITER ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ
MARCH 23, 7PM in the Cinema
Director: Jaromil Jireš, 1970, 76 min, Czechoslovakia
TRAILER on The Criterion Collection website
VIDEO ESSAY Introducing Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
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, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
This film is presented in the film series
CZECH WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA
highlighting extraordinary filmmaking by Czech women in the 1960's and 70's.
Other screenings in this series:
Daisies March 21, 7PM
Fruit of Paradise March 28, 7PM
Squandered Sunday March 30, 7PM
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Venue:
321 East 73rd Street
NY 10021
New York
United States
Date
Mar 23, 2017 7:00 PM
Organizer:
Czech Center