Vnučka
Directed by:
Lenka KnyCinematography:
Diviš MarekComposer:
Michal PavlíčekCast:
Jaroslava Adamová, Pavel Landovský, Helena Dvořáková, František Němec, Anna Polívková, Alois Švehlík, Matěj Hádek, Marian Roden, Iva ŠindelkováPlots(1)
Searching for a family secret that is hidden in the past. Řehoř lives a happy life. His wife Evženie does not. After sixty years of marriage eighty-year-old Evženie comes to her granddaughter – lawyer Katka – to help her divorce her eighty-five-year-old husband Řehoř. Katka is shocked by her grandmother´s decision and her heartlessness and firmness. What must have happened in her grandparents´ relationship that it has not been wiped out even by whole decades? Katka does not want to break up her beloved family and tries to find out her grandmother´s reason. She discovers dramatic history of her own family but she does not manage to reveal her grandparents´ secret. Her grandmother is at risk to lose her granddaughter and withholds the truth from her; she does not want to pass the burden of guilt to another generation. She tries to cope and put up with the past on her own. And what about Řehoř? Will Katka protect him? (official distributor synopsis)
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The first thing is that it does not arouse loud laughter through its awkwardness like the biggest atrocities this year. The other thing is that there is perhaps no single positive aspect besides the demanding Landovský. Amateur, wooden, arrhythmic and made for TV through and through. The topic is interesting, but the high school elaboration brings it to its knees. If you want something similar, but three levels better, go to the theater to see Uhde's Miracle in the Black House. That’s where Lenka Kny should have learned how to build a story about a family secret. This mixture of strange dialogues, emaciated characters and convulsive lyricism does not deserve attention. Definitely not at a time when films like Protector or 3 Seasons in Hell are being made.
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