Vzhůru nohama

The contemporary trend of transposing adaptations of popular novels into the present had its pitfalls. Its better and worse moments. For example, I never fully accepted Ignát Herrmann in modern settings, but the theme of Tales of the Lesser Quarter by Jan Neruda is right on the edge of the First Republic timelessness, in which it was still quite common to be a student in the flat of a pretty landlady. True, Neruda culminates things in a duel, which would have been somewhat out of the question in 1938, but the chatter and some of the sentiment or young love are still the same and will be the same tomorrow. (09/21/2015)