“The man who spits in Balzac’s “Physiology of Marriage” is less than nothing to me.” Directed by Jean Renoir, Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) is a satirical comedy starring Michel Simon as the title character, a tramp in Paris who, after being rescued from the river following a suicide attempt, insinuates himself into a bourgeois household….
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Věra Chytilová Double Bill
Czech director Věra Chytilová’s most famous film Daisies (1966) is a classic of avant-garde cinema. Seemingly childish and playful but with a searing undercurrent of transgressive politics, it is short but packs a punch above it’s weight. But the arrival of Daisies had been heralded by Chytilová’s earlier films: notably A Bagful of Fleas (1962) and Something Different (1963)….
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