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Czech. 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. It is considered part of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. [3]
978-80-86264-19-6. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Czech: Valerie A Týden Divů) is a novel by Vítězslav Nezval, written in 1935 and first published in 1945. The novel was written before Nezval's dramatic shift to Socialist Realism. It was made into a 1970 Czech film directed by Jaromil Jireš, a prominent example of Czech New Wave cinema.
- Nezval, Vítězslav, Dierna, Giuseppe
- 1945
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.
- (11K)
- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Jaromil Jires
- 1970-10-16
The meanings of events are often bewilderingly obscure in Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, yet the film’s central action is crystal clear: a young girl becomes a woman. The titular pubescent orphan (played by Jaroslava Schallerová) of Czech director’s Jaromil Jireš’s 1970 film wanders throughout her nineteenth-century small town amidst a wedding party’s revelers and a score of virginal girls while coming into contact with odd characters.
Jan 9, 2024 Full Review Christopher Hudson The Spectator Valerie and her Week of Wonders, a Czech film about an adolescent girl and her fantasies about vampirism, is so fey and kitsch as hardly to ...
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- Jaroslava Schallerová
- Jaromil Jires
- Drama, Fantasy
Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title. A thief awakens 13-year-old Valerie, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and a missionary have arrived in her 19th-century town. The thief is Orick; he reports to a cloaked constable who may also ...
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A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
