Regie:
Milan CieslarDrehbuch:
Martin HorskýKamera:
Václav TlapákMusik:
Alexius TschallenerBesetzung:
Simona Stašová, Ondřej Vetchý, Kristína Peláková, Barbora Poláková, Tereza Ramba, Sara Sandeva, Miroslav Táborský, Marek Taclík, Petr Vančura (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Pedantic policeman František wants to bring up his three daughters with a firm hand. He would like to see the girls coupled with capable and successful men, but instead they have the talent to find the opposite. Moreover, one of them is constantly trying to get pregnant, second one is only dating exotic fools and the third one is expecting a baby without knowing, who is the father. František and his wife always spend their vacation at the local lake, although the wife is dreaming of the seaside. One day she meets a bohemian writer with slightly suicidal tendencies and an attractive colleague with Spanish roots walks into Frantisek's office and things get moving... And these small stories of our characters create one big story of a small Czech family with usually troubles, we all know well. (Bontonfilm)
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I didn’t expect Life is Life to be a silly comedy. And to be honest, I didn’t really know what to think after I watched it for the first time. In any case, I can’t say that I didn’t have a good laugh; I mostly have Ondřej Vetchý to thank for that, as he took the movie to new heights. The story is a fairly sad drama from a life of a family of a proper tyrant. Ondřej Vetchý was downright enjoying himself in this role. The other half of the movie is an absolutely amazing Bond movies parody where the movie’s originality shines through, which was really amusing. In fact, that’s also why I’m giving the movie four stars. I was expecting a melancholic comedy the likes of Love is Love and in the end, I got a clever, polite, crazy Czech comedy that might not know which way to lean sometimes, but it still managed to bring me joy – and that’s something!
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I liked this a lot. The whole family was pretty wild, but in a good way (when you're just watching it and not part of it). The filmmakers lightly poked fun at the common prejudices in Czech society. And it was funny, not lame. The only thing I didn’t enjoy much was František’s daydreaming. I would have shortened that or maybe cut it out completely (the poorly done car chases are boring). But otherwise good, really good.
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I gawped cluelessly. I squeezed up against my girlfriend in fear and asked her, horrified, if life was really like this. If it makes no sense and the people that pass through life have no common sense, behave illogically, others cheat and members of the same family are as sharp as razors to each other. My idea of a comedy is something completely different - this was more like a horror. I don’t like this kind of movie and Frank is Ondra Vetchý’s worst ever role. Only the foul-mouthed parrot made me laugh.
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Sorry. Es hätte eine ganz nette tschechische Variante von Le Magnifique werden können, aber es hätte von einem völlig anderen Team gemacht werden müssen. Wenn hier eine oder zwei Szenen mit Vetchý und Stašová gelungen sind, dann ist das viel.
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Komedie mit einem Mangel an funktionalem Humor, auffällig inkonsistenter Atmosphäre und brutal zusammenhangsloser und willkürlicher Handlung. Es ist traurig, dass tschechische Filmemacher einen kommerziellen Film auf hohem technischem Niveau drehen können (hier gibt es sogar Actionszenen, Autoverfolgungsjagden und Ninjas), es ihnen jedoch eine ungeheure Schwierigkeit bereitet, diesen mit bedeutsamem oder zumindest kohärentem Inhalt zu füllen. Die meisten Charaktere, Situationen, die sie durchleben, und Motive würden besser in ein depressives Drama passen, andere sind wiederum parodistisch und verrückt. Das Ergebnis ist jedoch weder Fisch noch Fleisch, es unterhält nicht, berührt nicht und bietet keine Geschichte, die angemessen zum Filmtitel "wie im Leben" ist, denn sie wirkt falsch, unnatürlich und seelenlos. Mehr in der Rezension HIER.
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Eine dümmliche, naive und verrückte Komödie, die tschechische Version zu James Bond, etwas vermischt mit Le Magnifique - Ich bin der Größte. Man muss betonen, dass es sich um eine Komödie handelt, die mich jedoch nicht irgendwie beleidigt hat, der Humor war nicht fäkal oder ausgesprochen peinlich, kurz nur verrückt und stellenweise stereotyp, was die Liebesbeziehungen anbetrifft. Ich habe mich recht gut amüsiert und alle unangenehmen Ereignisse eines Junisonntags vergessen können. Im Rahmen des Jahres 2015 aber ist das ganz sicher der schwächste Streifen, was aber die tschechische Kinematografie in diesem Jahr eigentlich wertschätzt.
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I will admit honestly that I sat down to watch the movie with very low expectations and at first I thought it was a mistake because I laughed a few times and even remembered the line: "You lie and f*** behind our backs!". However, then everything went from bad to worse and not even Frequency 1 could save it. Screenwriter Martin Horský apparently likes Belmondo because he wrote the Czech version of Man from Acapulco, but the result was truly terrible. Well, in any case, I am richer for the experience, although it is one of those experiences that you don't want to repeat (being bitten by any animal, having a burned-down apartment, visiting an executor, stepping on a sea urchin, and so on).
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This is a bad attempt at making a Czech version of The Man from Acapulco, where at least the scenes that take place in Vetchý's fantasy have a little bit of pizzazz. Otherwise, it's a classic effort to show that family is the most important thing and that everything works out fine if people love each other. Or at least that they will continue to live in their "security".
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