"Form seemed to have gone rigid." Few sentences or sentiments could better encapsulate the climate in which Věra Chytilová, Queen of the Czech New Wave, forged her boundary-pushing directorial career - or the spunky attitude with which she approached her craft. Perhaps most fittingly, they are her own words. Even before her cinematic education, she famously derided the lack of innovation from the Czechoslovak filmmaking elite and went on to provoke and break rules with gusto. The above comment is one made whilst speaking in Jasmina Bralic's warm portrait, The Journey (2004), which screens as part of a much-needed - and timely, given the director's passing in 2014 - retrospective of Chytilová's work currently running at the BFI Southbank, London until 17 March.
- 3/9/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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