Daisies (Sedmikrásky) (1966)
I had read
a review that had said ‘daises’ was an a film full of ‘nonsense’
that featured nothing more than ‘ two girls dressing up, being
silly and jumping around being cute’.
it all
sounded like my type of film. Generally I find anything cute,
decorative and dream-like irresistible and dressing-up is a favourite
pastime of mine.
I was left
very disappointed by the movie. It was quite sickly actually.
The two
girls were incredibly bored… so decided to spend/waste their time
by dressing up, running around with apples and going to dinner with
different men.
The dinner
parts could’ve been quite fun if that silly girl had stopped
showing off and ordering too much food. The ‘playful’ acting was
gross. The type you see at the theatre when 25 year olds are playing
Wendy, John and Michael and Peter Pan is nearing 40.
The baby
voices that the 2 girls adopted irritated me as did the silly
cross-eyed expression the brown haired one would pull. The
choreographed way they would skip around, giggle and play fight…it
was all rather embarrassing.
I allow
this film to be bad for two reasons.
One, In spite of the two characters, it did have some lovely visuals.
I have included some screen captures because they really were very
nice. Some animation was used and it felt really fresh and exciting.
I really liked the palette and experimentation of colour
Two, it
was made in 1966 but it didn’t feel at all dated. It all felt very
contemporary
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