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- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders can be confusing, but it's a complete pleasure to eyes and ears, with its delightful score and its cinematography that mixes bright colours perfectly. The result is a perfect dreamlike blend of fantasy and horror. And the word "dreamlike" is an accurate word to describe this masterpiece.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is uninhibited from singular plot and narrative. What stays with me are its visuals: of Valerie warmly lit, the white bed in the house, the monstrous vampire, the opening night where her earrings are stolen, and that shot of the house from afar as night falls.
Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian (Jan...
- (22)
- Jaroslava Schallerová
- Jaromil Jires
- Drama, Fantasy
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders: Directed by Jaromil Jires. With Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek. Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.
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- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Jaromil Jires
- 1970-10-16
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czech: Valerie a týden divů) is a 1970 Czechoslovak Gothic surrealist coming-of-age psychological dark fantasy horror film [1] [2] [3] co-written and directed by Jaromil Jireš, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Vítězslav Nezval.
"Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" is a wonderfully surreal and hallucinatory horror/fantasy tale made by Jaromil Jires.This poetic film looks like a curious mixture of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Nosferatu".The pubescent Valerie is awakened one day by a pasty-faced,Nosferatu-like vampire who steals her earrings(which,we later learn,are imbued ...
Valerie and her Week of Wonders (1970) offers a fascinating mosaic of sociopolitical commentary which blends the political with the surreal.
A film full of symbolism, Jaromil Jareš’s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders was a visually insane masterpiece. The surrealistic horror film follows the story of our protagonist, Valerie, played by Jaroslava Scharellová, emerging into her adolescence and learning about womanhood.
