Far Too Personal

When a domestic film with familiar faces is released cinemas, it feels almost like a holiday, as almost everyone who’s at least 40 goes to watch it – the last time I saw a cinema this packed was maybe with The Avengers. Despite my big fears, it's ultimately a digestible one-off where the humour relies on the sex scenes, which are delivered in a really funny way. The surprise is the second half, where the romantic comedy turns into a fairly dense emotional drama – you could hear a nail falling in the cinema during the dinner scene. The little girl, played by Valentýna Bečková, is the biggest trump card of the whole film, this kid will go far. Surprisingly fine. 6/10. (01/29/2020)

I just have a soft spot for Petra. I know, she keeps getting the same roles, she keeps playing the same roles, but I find her inexplicably likable and I can't be completely critical of her. And so I watch movies I probably wouldn't normally watch. So there's the added bonus of Eliška Balzerová, who I always love watching too. The male part of the cast, on the other hand, is so, so pathetic (and the dubbing certainly doesn't help), plus the characters are written incredibly stupidly. Likewise, they made Tatiana into a complete bimbo and the most naive and simple woman I could ever imagine. Barely 3 stars; at least I didn't get bored. (02/12/2021)

This film is truly a mistake. This isn't a silly cute romantic comedy for undemanding female viewers - this is a pathologically harmful attack on the already low level of intellect of all the people involved in the creation of such crap and those who, under the impression of harmless entertainment, decide to face this bullshit of unbelievable proportions. The patterns in which these characters move are as horrific as the stereotypes they are portrayed with. I prefer porn, which is cleaner in terms of genre, more acceptable in its acting, and not harmful to society in the broadest context. Also, no one is forced to look at Tatiana Dyková's face. As the saying goes: some people read so they don't have to think... (05/27/2020)

At first glance, the film seems like a comedic romantic life drama with a lot of emotion and humour, but that would mean that someone other than its creators would have to have made it, because their idea of things like "emotions", "humour" or "life" come off as something obscure from another universe. This poorly filmed and poorly written inconsistent genre mix begins on a light comedic note about relationship lifestyles (but essentially none of it is funny at all), and then gradually mutates into a raw psychodrama with zero trace of comedy. However, the film does not become realistic at all and instead turns into only a superficial and disintegrated torso built on a dubious psychological basis. The film’s goal was probably to satisfy both fans of burdensome dramas relationship comedies, but the battle was lost beforehand. The result is terrible, the film is empty of content, whilst also managing to randomly alternate mutually incompatible moods and follow a lazy template in which men behave like sociopaths and women are destined to love them, constantly forgive them and let them do whatever they want to them. This is particularly inappropriate in a film about women that happens to be written and directed by women. The fact that the main female roles are played by Czech women and male roles by Yugoslavs very poorly dubbed into Czech is just the icing on the cake. That the film was going to be a disaster could be guessed from the bizarre opening credits, in which a book version of the film first passes around a digital Earth in space, followed by a cartoon radio pulling an astronaut in a red convertible, which is of course entirely unrelated to the rest of the film. (01/23/2020)

I have to say outright that I was expecting to boo this. However, this hodgepodge of genres did not annoy me quite as much, the story developed differently from what I had expected and Petra Hřebíčková did not flash her fake smiles of the Katherine Heigl type. In any case, the script wasn’t worth much, the whole oh-so-funny storyline with Tatiana Dyková was downright terrible, and the post-synchronization was awful. Anyway, here goes one star. (08/07/2020)

I have very conflicted feelings about this. On the one hand, I quite liked it, but on the other, about a thousand things annoyed me. I didn't enjoy many of the humorous moments, and if I did, they were mostly unpleasantly sexist. The drama only kicked in briefly towards the end, which, combined with the overall comedic tone, didn't quite work well together. Even if Eliška Balzerová tried her best, it was impossible to overlook how the others, especially the male part of the cast, spoiled it. Only little Valentýna Bečková and sometimes Petra Hřebíčková managed to keep up with Eliška. (45%) (05/23/2021)