The read
It runs a compact 1h 13m.
Synopsis
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes81%
325 audience votes
Key crew
- Jaromil JirešDirector
- Jaromil JirešScreenplay
- Ester KrumbachováScreenplay
- Luboš FišerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jaroslava SchallerováValerie
- Helena AnýžováGrandmother / Elsa / Mother / Redhead
- Petr KopřivaOrlík
- Jiří PrýmekTchoř-Constable
- Jan KlusákGracián
- Libuše KomancováHandmaid in Training
- Karel EngelCoachman Ondřej
- Alena StojákováHedvika
- Otto HradeckýLandlord
- Martin WielgusTchoř-Father
- Jiřina MachalickáFlower Girl
- Michaela KlocováHandmaid
Stills
Themes
pubertycorruptionbased on novel or bookmagicvampiresexualityallegoryinnocencesupernaturalpriestreligiondemon