Electra, My Love
Miklós Jancsó’s richly inventive 1974 adaptation of the Greek myth sends an oblique political message.
Review by Alison Frank
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Dragon’s Return
Eduard Grečner’s film is reminiscent of The Seventh Seal, with its timeless bond with the cycles of nature and local superstition.
Review by Alison Frank
Fruit of Paradise
Released after the crushing of the Prague Spring, Chytilová’s 1970 follow-up to Daisies is as visually inventive but much darker in tone.
Review by Alison Frank
Birds, Orphans and Fools
This liberated slice of 1960s Slovak surrealism is both joyful and tragic and stylistically dazzling.
Review by Alison Frank
Best DVD/Blu-ray Releases of 2011
Electric Sheep writers review the best DVD and Blu-ray releases in 2011.
Red Psalm
Filled with catchy revolutionary tunes and lush colour imagery of attractive peasants in a fertile landscape, Red Psalm has an irresistible appeal.
Review by Alison Frank
Alice
The March Hare constantly has to be wound up and have his eye pulled back into place, the Mad Hatter is made of carved and beaten wood and, despite his hollow innards, constantly drinks cups of tea.
Review by Peter Hames
Larks on a String
Because Menzel’s film is explicitly set during communism, it is hard not to focus on the bitter reality of the situation.
Review by Alison Frank
Daisies
But their insubordination is not just an act of female resistance against patriarchal society: V?ra Chytiloví¡’s Daisies (1966) is more Dada than women’s lib, and the two Maries are above all non-conformist individuals, outsiders to the grinding machinery of society.
Virginie Sélavy
The Party and the Guests
Jan Němec’s film is an engaging yarn about a small group of bourgeois people who set off for a picnic and soon find themselves in rather sadistic and perplexing company.
Review by Philip Winter