New 35mm Print!

Friday, August 24 – Sunday, August 26

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• “A Prague Spring wildflower (very wild) blooms at the Brattle,” by Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe

Sedmikrásky (1966) dir Vera Chytilová w/Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková [74 min]
One of the most anarchic films of all time, Vera Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women both named Marie. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” the Maries embark on a series of pranks in which nothing – food, clothes, men, war – is taken seriously. An aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema, the Brattle is proud to join with Janus Films to present DAISIES in a new 35mm print.

“The most drolly anarchic cine-provocation to bloom during the Prague Spring, Vera Chytilova’s new wave farce looks better every year.” – J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books (Read the Review)

“CRITIC’S PICK! Brace yourself for some of the most exuberant and disjunctive Pop Art imagery ever put onscreen.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine (Read the Review)

“EXTRAORDINARY! Full of colorful experiments, dazzling collage effects and surrealist antics.” – Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times (Read the Review)

“The brashest, brattiest transmission from the ephemeral Czech New Wave.” – Justin Stewart, The L Magazine  (Read the Review)

“FIVE STARS! This Molotov cocktail of fizzy champagne and feminist theory has not lost any of its combustible carbonation.” – David Fear, Time Out New York (Read the Review)