#761: JIREŠ, Jaromil: Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (1970)
JIREŠ, Jaromil (Czechoslovakia)
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders [1970]
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders [1970]
Spine #761
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
76 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
in Czech
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2015
Director/Writers
Based on the novel by Vítezslav Nezval.
Screenplay by Ester Krumbachová and Jaromil Jireŝ,
Dialogue by Jiri Musil.
Jireš was 35 when he directed Valerie and her Week of Wonders.
Other Jireš films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 32: The Joke (1969)
The Film
Other Jireš films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 32: The Joke (1969)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Jana Prikryl.
Commentary
None.
Three early shorts
By director Jireš: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960).
Interview
With Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames.
Interviews
From 2006 with actors Schallerová and Klusák.
Alternate
2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the music’s origins.
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Jana Prikryl.
Commentary
None.
Three early shorts
By director Jireš: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960).
Interview
With Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames.
Interviews
From 2006 with actors Schallerová and Klusák.
Alternate
2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the music’s origins.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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