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Glasgow Film Festival · 2024

Glasgow Film Festival 2024

Czech, Please!

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6 films · 3 reviews

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Brothers

The true story of the Mašín brother’s anti-Communist resistance and their attempt to flee to the West in 1953.

(Country: Czechia, Germany, Slovakia; Year: 2023; Director: Tomas Masin; Writer: Marek Epstein, Barbara Masin; Stars: Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal, Adam Ernest, Tatiana Dyková, Stefan Konarske, Tony Masek, Karolina Lea Novakova, Matyás Reznícek, Václav Neuzil, Matej Hádek, Karel Dobrý, Alzbeta Malá, Petr Uhlík, Daniela Kolárová, Marian Mitas)

Daisies

Two young women wreak rebellious havoc in this avant garde and subversive Czech New Wave classic.

(Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1966; Director: Vera Chytilová; Writer: Vera Chytilová, Pavel Jurácek, Ester Krumbachová, Jaroslav Kucera, Zdenek Bláha, Václav Nývlt, Bohumil Smída, Ladislav Fikar; Stars: Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková, Jirina Myskova, Marcela Brezinová, Julius Albert, Oldrich Hora, Jan Klusák, Josef Konícek, Jaromír Vomácka, Helena Anýzová, Miroslava Babúrková, J. Bartos, Oldrich Basus, Jirina Cesková)

Is There Any Place For Me, Please?

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A story of survival, adjustment and reclaiming a place in the world, full of unexpected joys.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Documentary charting an acid attack survivor's personal journey.

(Country: Czechia; Year: 2023; Director: Jarmila Stukova; Stars: Martina Izingová)

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Mr And Mrs Stodola

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If one bears in mind that parts of it may be more fiction than fact, it’s an interesting character study, as well as one of the more unusual cinematic portraits of a marriage under stress.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
The story of a husband and wife's killing spree.

(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2023; Director: Petr Hátle; Writer: Petr Hátle, Tomáš Hrubý; Stars: Lucie Žáčková, Jan Hájek)

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Restore Point (Bod Obnovy)

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It’s nice to see a film which problematises familiar, overly comfortable assumptions about the sociological response to new technologies, and which doesn’t insist that babies need to be thrown out with bathwater.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
It’s the year 2041, and humanity has reached the point where it can cheat death. Anyone who dies an unnatural death has the right to be brought back to life. All you have to do is to create a backup of your personality – a restore point – at least every 48 hours. But a movement of people try to sabotage this concept.

(Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Serbia; Year: 2023; Director: Robert Hloz; Writer: Tomislav Čečka, Robert Hloz, Zdeněk Jecelín; Stars: Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík, Karel Dobrý, Agáta Kryštůfková, Katarzyna Zawadzka, Jan Vlasák, Iveta Dušková, Richard Stanke)

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We Have Never Been Modern (Úsvit)

A pregnant doctor turns detective after the discovery of a dead newborn.

(Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Matěj Chlupáček; Writer: Miro Šifra; Stars: Eliška Křenková, Miloslav König, Milan Ondrík, Richard Langdon, Martha Issová, Luboš Veselý, Ladislav Hampl, Marián Mitaš)