Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1970 Wide

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Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerov�) is the young teenage girl who lives with her grandmother. She feels the first stirring of sexual awareness when a carnival parade comes to town. Eagle (Petr Kopriva) is the young man who presents her with a pair of magic earrings. Her fantasy adventures begin when she imagines she is the daughter of a bishop with a hideous visage. Her grandmother becomes a vampire. She pretends to be dead when a priest tries to rape her by swallowing one of the earrings. The line

Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Horror, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Jaromil Jires

Written By: V�tezslav Nezval, Jaromil Jires

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1970 Wide

On DVD: Jan 13, 2004

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This confounding, carnivalesque coming-of-age fantasy is as beguiling as it is beautiful, as subversive as it is strange.

August 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Anton Bitel

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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.

April 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You

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Leo Goldsmith

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While fascinating in the visual sense, the film as a whole was a bit too convoluted even for my tastes. While I'm perfectly capable of enjoying a film as simply a beautifully bizarre spectacle...this one was JUST whimsical enough that I longed for a bit more cohesion in the story. A sort of "fractured fairy tale" if

April 14, 2009