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Jiří VejdělekDrehbuch:
Jiří VejdělekKamera:
Martin ŠáchaMusik:
Jan P. MuchowBesetzung:
Jiří Macháček, Bolek Polívka, Vica Kerekes, Petra Hřebíčková, Simona Stašová, Lukáš Langmajer, Hynek Čermák, Michal Novotný, Emma Smetana (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Can a happy marriage be based on cheating? Charming lady-killer Rudolf is convinced so: "A woman needs to feel she's fighting for her man, she must try hard to keep him. And most of all – she must not get bored!"
Rudolf is good at applying this wild theory in everyday life putting in loads of unrelenting vigor which is quite enviable in his early sixties. The more he struggles to understand the naivety of his unbearably correct son-in-law Ondrej, who is so snowed under with duties that he oversees how dangerously bored his wife Alice starts to be. Rudolf, the loving father and friendly father-in-law, is quick to come up with a handful of reliable hints on how to pep up the dying marriage. It's his only daughter's family happiness that's at stake, after all... Thanks to an affair with beautiful Sarlota, Ondrej actually does turn from a boring decent man into the master of all creatures, pampered by his mistress and admired by his wife. A wonderful situation, yet hardly sustainable in the long run. Not only because the real masters of all creatures are women, of course. Ondrej is in for a flood of comic situations that he faces with a disarming mixture of typically masculine characteristics – playful invention and the indestructible hope that all turns out well. (Verleiher-Text)
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Jiří Vejdělek würde ein richtiges Drehbuch brauchen, Bolek Polívka würde eine richtige Rolle brauchen, in der er nicht den Kasper machen muss… Jiří Macháček würde eine richtige Ohrfeige brauchen. Der schablonenhafte Charakter der Figuren, den ich in Women in Temptation noch ertragen habe, nahm in Men in Hope ein absurdes, amoralisches Ausmaß an. Ich habe es nicht ausgehalten. Männer werden nur als dumme Idioten dargestellt, Frauen wiederum als dumme "Schlampen" (mir fällt kein anständigeres Wort ein). In dem Film gibt es nur wenige gute Witze, dafür aber sehr viele dumme. Die Message, dass Fremdgehen prima ist und alles löst, ist doof. Die anderen Zuschauer*innen haben sich aber gut amüsiert. Es sieht so aus, dass der Film ein solides Einspielergebnis haben wird. Ich habe ein bisschen Angst davor, was als Nächstes kommt. Bewusstlose Kinder?
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Vejdělek, Renč or Poledňáková... all of them have been making identical fairy tales for adults lately. Brand - to make everything pleasing to the eye. Actresses/dolls, rooms like from a magazine and some sort of plot, so that there is a reason to change the dolls in those rooms often. In this case, add a little bit of inner Prague and the result is complete. What, you don't like that?
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I went as a man in hope and left as a man in dismay from the fact that, despite his wide experience, Vejdělek doesn’t know what he actually wants. Whether this is a comedy, a drama, a tragicomedy, a satire, a farce, a relationships movie, or what... And each new segment is a new style like “everybody gets a go". And although each segment is not at all bad in itself (mainly the purely comic or purely dramatic), the end result is nothing; nothing good, nothing bad.
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I consider myself a simple viewer who enjoys the small things, but how am I supposed to enjoy a film that sells something as morally decrepit as a noncommittal comedy? The moment the protagonists start to question their conscience and look for a way out, there is a catharsis in the restaurant. That solves the situation in a truly shrewd way, but most importantly, it DEFENDS all their behavior because it's actually the best thing for everyone, instead of them feeling any shame. The same goes for Vejdělek and the smiling crowds of satisfied viewers seem to be swept away after leaving the movie theater.
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I'm very pleasantly surprised and I dare say I haven't been so nicely entertained by a Czech film in a few years. Everything revolves a good script, which is at times unlikely, but has no dull spots. The acting duo of Macháček and Polívka is a perfect combination. And the new starlets Kerekes and Hřebíčková were at times more than just nice backdrops. Simona Stašová's departure was quite a shock and the whole hall roared. Nice music, good humor... I'm satisfied, so I'm re-evaluating (5 stars).
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