Czech cinema earned global recognition through the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960s, a movement of formally inventive, quietly subversive films that influenced directors worldwide. That spirit of understated storytelling persists in contemporary work like The Kite. See what Macca made of Czech film below.
Country Czech Republic
Every so often you watch something and simply marvel at the craft of it, and Jan Švankmajer's Jabberwocky is exactly that. This is the third or fourth of the great Czech surrealist's stop-motion pieces I have seen, and it is comfortably the most accomplished. In
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment about halfway through Personal Shopper where Kristen Stewart's character sits alone on a train, exchanging cryptic text messages with an unknown sender, and the film genuinely crackles with unease. It's tense, it's modern, it's quietly terrifying in
Raindance Film Festival
There's a shot early in Summer School, 2001 that stopped me in my tracks. A Vietnamese family, working a market stall somewhere in Czechia, quietly going about the business of survival. Counterfeit goods, careful eyes, the kind of low-level hustle that keeps a family fed. It'
Genre Horror
★★½ — Van Helsing (2004)
Genre Animation
★★★½ — The Kite (2019)
Genre Comedy
★★★ — Underground (1995)
Genre Drama
★ — Aferim! (2015)
Genre History
★★★½ — Anthropoid (2016)
Genre Adventure
★★★ — AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
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