Láska, soudruhu
August Fools
Regie:
Taru MäkeläDrehbuch:
Raija TalvioKamera:
Jouko SeppäläMusik:
Stein Berge SvendsenBesetzung:
Kati Outinen, Miroslav Etzler, Elena Leeve, Kryštof Hádek, Esko Salminen, Laura Birn, Vesa Vierikko, Tommi Korpela, Denny Ratajský, Petr Stach, Jan Budař (mehr)Inhalte(1)
August Fools is a romantic comedy set against the political backdrop of the Cold War. Elsa, a middle-aged milliner and a part-time clairvoyant is apparently in total control of her life –until the man she once loved and lost walks in through the door of her hat shop in Helsinki 1962. Jan a Czech jazz musician, is in town to perform at the "International Festival of Peace and Friendship of the Youth of the World." For more than two decades Elsa believed the man is dead. (Verleiher-Text)
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Honestly, I recorded this film accidentally, but I still watched it because I saw an opportunity to get acquainted with the representative of Czech cinema, which I have long been skeptical of and prefer to avoid. August Fools confirmed all the stereotypes that I have formed about Czech productions based on my experiences. A low-budget, flat script that is only suitable for a small unambitious TV film. A poster story about how, thanks to love, a communist boy from a prominent family saw through and said goodbye to his career in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Practically everything is shallow, unfinished, and provincial. The only things that caught my attention in the whole film were the duo of young Finnish actresses, led by the blonde Laura Birn, a scene where Jan Budař successfully parodies the passionate ideological speech of a Soviet youth, and the motif of a later assassin of American President Kennedy as a participant of the festival and a suitor of one of the film's heroines. I'm not saying that the whole thing couldn't have worked, but much more effort would have had to be put into the script, dialogue, and the funny punchlines of the comically tuned scenes. Overall impression: 35%.
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Eine verrückte und recht niedliche Komödie über eine traurige Zeit, bei der ich mehrmals von Herzen gelacht habe. Mein liebster Hádek hat erneut nicht enttäuscht und hat den Protektionsbösewicht wieder absolut perfekt gespielt, Budař in einer witzigen Nebenrolle ist auch wunderbar. Tschechisch-finnische Koproduktionen gehen recht gut aus, neben Clownwise ist dies ein weiteres Ergebnis einer erfolgreichen Zusammenarbeit, ich würde mich nicht gegen weitere gemeinsame Projekte wehren.
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