Daisies (1966)

This feminist milestone is an anarchic comedy of subversion whose approach to montage is as exuberant as the film’s two protagonists.

“Released two years before the 1968 Prague Spring, Věra Chytilová’s second feature follows the misadventures of two young women who decide to mirror the indulgent world around them. In their universe, nothing traditional is sacred: food, clothes, men and war become both ammunition and subject of their pranks. This provocative and timeless gem is a surrealist fever dream and begs the viewer to open their eyes to what is sacred to them.” Dorota Lech

1966 Czechoslovakia
Directed by
Věra Chytilová
Produced by
Bohumil Smída, Ladislav Fikar
Featuring
Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová, Julius Albert
Running time
76 minutes

Ranked in The Greatest Films of All Time poll

Sight and Sound

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Senem Aytac
Turkey
Anna Backman Rogers
Sweden
Annie Berke
USA
Claude Bertemes
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Ela Bittencourt
USA/Brazil
Colin Burnett
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Raúl Camargo Bórquez
Chile
Olivia Cooper-Hadjian
France
Mark Duguid
UK
Almudena Escobar López
Spain
Valerie Ettenhofer
USA
Paula Felix-Didier
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David Flint
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Marya E. Gates
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Aswathy Gopalakrishnan
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Lisa Gotto
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Carmen Gray
New Zealand/Germany
Thomas Groh
Germany
Anke Hahn
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Vinzenz Hediger
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Maggie Hennefeld
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Peter Hoskin
UK
Nazmia Jamal
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Tara Judah
Australia/UK
Ella Kemp
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Tomasz Kolankiewicz
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Dorota Lech
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Kevin B Lee
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Dana Linssen
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Akira Mizuta Lippit
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Mia Mask
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Emily Maskell
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Petra Meterc
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Savina Petkova
Bulgaria/UK
Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Canada
Cristian Saldía
Chile
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Sheila Schvarzman
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Jez Stewart
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Firat Yucel
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Directors

Alex Barrett
UK
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Canada
Tina Leisch
Austria

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