Antonín Dura
Search results
Capricious Summer (Czech: Rozmarné léto), a 1968 Czechoslovak comedy film, was the first colour film directed by Jiří Menzel. It is based on the novel Rozmarné léto (Summer of Caprice) by the Czech writer Vladislav Vančura.
Capricious Summer: Directed by Jirí Menzel. With Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák, Míla Myslíková. The friends enjoy the charms of nature - and of their guests.
A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, Capricious Summer is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries. Directed by Jiří Menzel. Screenplay by Jiří Menzel & Václav Nyvlt. Script Editing by Vladimír Kalina & Jan Libora. Based on the novel Summer of Caprice by Vladislav Vančura. Cinematography by Jaromír Šofr.
Like the director's international hit Closely Watched Trains, Capricious Summer sets its story at a safe distance in the past, the relatively peaceful 1920s. Three amusing middle-aged men, one of them a minister, pass a summer swimming at a bath house on the river.
Capricious Summer. Two years after his worldwide hit Closely Watched Trains, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant.
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Menzel's evocation of place and mood, of soft summer days threatened by winter, of regret for lost youth and opportunity, of hope for things to come, is...
