Výchova dívek v Čechách

Watching it once is enough. After this movie, I thought hard about when I actually found Michal Viewegh entertaining. And I came to the conclusion that he always annoyed me with his movie premises. I’m done with all his efforts. His stories are simply not my cup of tea. However, I admit that many actors can have fun with his characters, like Anna Geislerová in this movie. (25.04.2013)

I last saw Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia when it was a new film on TV, and again only now on a remastered DVD. I was a bit worried about the experience, whether the more or less favorable impression I had at the time would be disgraced and in fact literally ruined, but surprisingly this Michal Viewegh story is still absolutely brilliant, funny, and has great color styling. Games with citations and with a depersonalized hero who is actually the author himself. The charms of the 1990s, personified by the bon vivant Lasica, the most beautiful lolita Geislerová, the emancipated housewife Cibulková and the most surprising hero of today - Pavelka. All of this oscillates in interesting settings - a primary school classroom, a foreign holiday, the manor residence of Mr. K... and every now and then a scene from 9 1/2 Weeks cuts in. I loved it. (30.12.2015)

I don't read Viewegh, so I couldn't compare the film and the book, but I don't think I’d feel like it anyway. The story was basically pointless, its ending almost pathetic. Ondřej Pavelka has no chance of being among the actors whose performance I look forward to, so I'm glad I wrote this review, because I can get it off my head now. (21.04.2020)