Happy Birthday, Věra Chytilová! Born today in 1929, this avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema was banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s for her work.
Chytilová is best known for co-conceiving, co-writing and directing her most well-known installment of Czech New Wave. This was the 1966 Czechoslovak drama/comedy-drama film 'Sedmikrásky' ('Daisies').
An aesthetically and politically adventurous film, 'Daisies' is widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.
Believing the world to be spoiled, two teenage girls, Marie #I (Jitka Cerhová) and Marie #II (Ivana Karbanová), decide that they will be spoiled too. They embark on a series of destructive pranks to rebel against a materialistic society.
Regarding credits, they are only at the beginning. At the end, all that appears onscreen is the statement: "THIS FILM IS DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO GET UPSET ONLY OVER A STOMPED-UPON BED OF LETTUCE".
Regarding the Czech New Wave, Chytilová is considered to be one of the most rebellious, irreverent and boundary-breaking talents.
Chytilová had been active from 1962–2011.
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