She Kept Asking for the Moon

The Eastern lyricism is, of course, tolerable only with a slight degree of exaggeration, but the "observational" passages from the normalizing mundaneness are excellent, depressing and at the same time free of any awkwardness. The absolute culmination are the wedding sequences and nonchalant philosophizing about the emancipation and influence of Žigulík on married sex. The story of a mother and daughter who are doomed to repeat the same mistakes and fight the prejudices of the environment is not that strong, but Uher's fragmentary nature essentially works for him - in general, this is an atypically lyrical view of a prosaic time. (04/22/2013)

The reputation of Milka Zimková and Štefan Uher's film She Kept Asking for the Moon predates the dispute with Fero Fenič. Yet at the same time, it's also a "cult" movie. (12/10/2020)