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Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Shortly after thirteen year old Valerie ( Jaroslava Schallerova ) experiences her first menstruation, a peculiar priest comes to town. Our young heroine's grandmother sells her property to the man for his secret of eternal youth and soon thereafter develops a taste for human blood, her grandchild's included! If this makes the film sound comprehendible, then consider the synopsis misleading. Mix Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain with Herzog's Nosferatu and Jordan's The Company of Wolves to get an idea of...
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Valerie & Her Week of Wonders [VHS]
"Boldly in the paths of Bergman, Fellini, and Bunuel" - NY TIMES / "Strange, mad, beautiful…" - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES / recently toured U.S. arthouses / A horror story with a nest of vampires. A bewitching fairy tale about a young girl’s coming of age. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS is a betwitching fairy tale in the tradition of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Valerie discovers the world is not what it seems after she gets a pair of magical earrings. This haunting portrait of a beautiful girl’s emergence into...
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Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders - Dvd - Jaroslava Schallerov,petr Kopriva,jan Klusak,jaromil Jires - Fantasy Life,vampires
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Valerie And Her Weeks Of Wonders
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - Subtitle
A surreal and, at times, achingly beautiful coming-of-age tale set against a backdrop of menacing pagan mysticism, director Jaromil Jires' earthy fable offers a unique portrait of a world not too far from our own in terms of collective mentality and skewed politics. Whether viewed as a political allegory or a simple cautionary fable, the film could likely succeed on either level, though Jires' damning view of organized religion shines through with distinct and unmistakable clarity no matter how the...
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Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (CD)
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Two classics of 1970s Czech horror are featured in this set. In VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS, a set of bewitched earrings induct an...
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VALERIE A TYDEN DIVU is magic. Like so few other films, VALERIE crystallizes a sense of the mystical, the ethereal, and captures it to celluloid. The film is a gem that retains a sense of delicate purity while the world around it loses its magic and becomes uglier and greyer with each passing day. In VALERIE, director Jaromil Jires (THE JOKE) has done something that few film makers with the exception of Ingmar Bergman, fellow Czech Juraj Herz, Russian masters such as Aleksandr Ptushko and Alexander...
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Much like The Crucible, this riveting drama tells the true story of the last gasp of the notorious witch hunts in Czechoslovakia. A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. With its bold and striking cinematography, the film captures scenes of both daring nudity and brutal torture.
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Valerie, the heroine, discovers the world is not what it seems after she gets a pair of magical earings. Her quaint little village is actually a haven for blood-sucking vampires. Her kindly grandmother is really an evil old crone. The local farmers are lechers, and the priest harbors strange desires.
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Much like The Crucible , this riveting drama tells the true story of the last gasp of the notorious witch hunts in Czechoslovakia. A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. With its bold and striking cinematography, the film captures scenes of both daring nudity and brutal torture.
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Import DVD. PAL All Region. Filmed Interview with Jaroslava Schallerová (Valerie). Newly filmed introduction by writer and film historian Michael Brooke. New digital transfer with restored image and sound. New and improved English subtitle translation. Optimal quality dual-layer disc. Booklet featuring a new essay by film programmer and author Peter Hames and an appreciation by Joseph A. Gervasi of Exhumed Films.
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Valerie discovers the world is not what it seems after she gets a pair of magical earrings. This haunting portrait of a beautiful girl's emergence into womanhood is a ravishingly beautiful dream film in which horror and sexuality mix with tenderness and innocence. Release Date: 1/13/2004
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WAT7270 Val Lewton Horror Collection DVD (Cat People, Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, Bedlam, The Leopard Man, Ghost Ship, The 7th Victim)
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Aided and abetted by his counter cultured compadriats at Finders Keepers a black virgin-vinyl and CD duplication of the original master-tapes are now available for one and all to enjoy courtesy of the men who performed previous death-defying escape missions for Stanley Myers soundtrack music to 'Sitting Target' and providing psychedelic amnesty for buried treasures by Jean-Claude Vannier, Susan Christie and a veritable hoard of progressive Welsh folk music. And what better time and climate to unleash...
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This dreamlike fairytale captures the coming-of-age of a young Czechoslovakian girl. After receiving a pair of earrings, strange things begin to happen to Valerie. As her burgeoning sexuality sparks even more haunting escapades, Valerie must contend with an explosively surreal world that challenges and inspires her. Jaromil Jires' film is a surprisingly sensitive and visually spectacular.
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Two classics of 1970s Czech horror are featured in this set. In VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS, a set of bewitched earrings induct an innocent young girl into the world of sexuality--via depraved priests and ravenous vampires. The allegorical WITCHES' HAMMER follows a brutal inquisitor in the Czechoslovakian witch hunts.
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To accompany the spellbinding imagery the film was given is what is perhaps the greatest musical score of all the Czech New Wave features. For his fifteenth commission, composer Lubos Fiser renders the magnificent, gossamer-fragile score of pas- toral-orchestral folk songs, hallucinogenic soundscapes and clockwork harpsichords. Liner notes written by Andy Votel and Trish Keenan (Broadcast).
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