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A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama from Wild Bees director Bohdan Sláma. As the shadow of the country's largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika (Tatiana Vilhelmová), Tonik (Pavel Liska), and Dasha (Anna Geislerová) hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monika's dreams are built around
Jul 9, 2005 Limited
May 6, 2008
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It's the comic, touching glimpses into a society run aground that make Something Like Happiness special and link it with the gentle fables of the Czech New Wave films of the 1960s.
Third time's the charm for Czech helmer Bohdan Slama, whose talent for locating the dignity in the downtrodden of his native Czech Republic is on moving display.
A thoughtfully performed, gently quirky human drama about choices made and their often surprising consequences.
[L]ovely in its harried, hard-won emotion and bitter eccentricity...
Honest and incisive, a film without a message, just telling it like it is.
...the dedication of the writer/director and his cast make it a worthwhile film for the movie buff.
Sláma has captured those type of childhood friendships grown into maturity which are encircled by loosely connected parents all long time acquaintances because of their kids.
The [entwined] stories have been purged of cinematic trappings to the extent that they have almost become too mundane to really captivate or merit our attention.
In the film's evocation of industrialized squalor you get an emphatic sense of location effecting personal action.
(*** 1/2): Thumbs Up Well-acted and directed.
June 17, 2010
A great film, and a good example of the Czech mindset in dramatic films. No happy ending, in fact no ending at all, which allows the audience to imagine whatever they want to. Fans of this film should also watch The Wild Bees, an earlier effort by the same director. Many of the same actors were used in both films as
May 11, 2010
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