Sisters Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová decide the world is spoiled, so they want to be spoiled too. They start off by leeching expensive meals off older men and pushing them onto trains. As other players fade from their scenes, they continue on in self-indulgence, stealing boats and breaking into empty dining rooms to gorge themselves on banquets. They are always eating and squabbling.
Vera Chytilová's kinetically shot and phantasmagorically edited film about the destructive nature of unthinking greed seems to be rather pointless until the very end, when it makes its points in a simplistic and obvious manner. It remains puzzling and compelling throughout, with the leads overplaying the roles, whether the shots are set in a realistic or fantastic world. Nonetheless, the Czech authorities seem not to have bothered looking at more than a few minutes of the film, before banning it for "depicting the wanton."
Vera Chytilová's kinetically shot and phantasmagorically edited film about the destructive nature of unthinking greed seems to be rather pointless until the very end, when it makes its points in a simplistic and obvious manner. It remains puzzling and compelling throughout, with the leads overplaying the roles, whether the shots are set in a realistic or fantastic world. Nonetheless, the Czech authorities seem not to have bothered looking at more than a few minutes of the film, before banning it for "depicting the wanton."