This confounding, carnivalesque coming-of-age fantasy is as beguiling as it is beautiful, as subversive as it is strange.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
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Reviews Counted:2
Fresh:2
Rotten:0
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Runtime: 73 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: This dreamlike fairytale captures the coming-of-age of a young Czechoslovakian girl. After receiving a pair of earrings, strange things begin to happen to Valerie. As her burgeoning sexuality... This dreamlike fairytale captures the coming-of-age of a young Czechoslovakian girl. After receiving a pair of earrings, strange things begin to happen to Valerie. As her burgeoning sexuality sparks even more haunting escapades, Valerie must contend with an explosively surreal world that challenges and inspires her. Jaromil Jires' film is a surprisingly sensitive and visually spectacular. [More]
Starring: Jaroslava Schallerova, Helena Anyzkova, Karel Engel, Jan Klusak
Starring: Jaroslava Schallerova, Helena Anyzkova, Karel Engel, Jan Klusak, Petr Kopriva
Director: Jaromil Jires
Director: Jaromil Jires
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Reviews for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
With its shifting moods and its fairy tale symbolism of youth and age, sexuality and death, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is part opaque folk tale and part Gothic horror.
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