A timid ambulance driver, Jaroslav has a complex relationship with his wife, Blanka. She uses their three children as blackmail to get what she wants: his mother's apartment. Various versions of the way Jaroslav attempts to save his marriage are ingeniously told and unfold as a video-game narrative. Roles and power dynamics are reversed, always culminating in a lot of blood and broken crockery. A layered, absurdist family drama about the vicious circle of domestic violence in central Europe.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 56 min.
- Country, year
- Czechia, Slovakia, 2019
- Genre
- Drama, Comedy, Available online
- Language
- Czech
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N-16
Credits
- Director
- Mira Fornai
- Screenplay
- Mira Fornai
- Producers
- Viktor Schwarcz, Mira Fornay
- Cinematography
- Tomáš Sysel
- Cast
- Jaroslav Plesl, Petra Fornayová, Regina Rázlová, Jan Alexander
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Director
Mira Fornai
Mira Fornay attended the FAMU in Prague and the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK. In 2005 she was selected for the workshop of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Foxes (2009), her feature film debut, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Her feature film My Dog Killer won a Hivos Tiger Award in 2013, and Gardeners (2016) premiered at IFFR.
