“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
Daisies (1966)
This feminist milestone is an anarchic comedy of subversion whose approach to montage is as exuberant as the film’s two protagonists.
- 1966 Czechoslovakia
- Directed by
- Věra Chytilová
- Produced by
- Bohumil Smída, Ladislav Fikar
- Featuring
- Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová, Julius Albert
- Running time
- 76 minutes
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