Daisies

“Girls gone bad in Czech New Wave utopia” “If everything is going bad in this world then we're going bad as well!” Two young, anarchist women, Marie (Ivana Karbanová) and Marie (Jitka Cerhova), go on a criminal spree. The world has no values, so why should they adhere to any? It becomes a surreal, satirical journey of jokes and pranks. They get taken out to dinner by older gentlemen, lie to each other and then put the men on the train without mercy. They get thrown out of bars drunk or hang around in their apartments, eat some more and philosophize about life. In Daises, women no longer passively do what the moralizing labels tell them, but move freely and say what they feel like! In a scarlet of film techniques, the wonderful avant-garde utopia of Vera Chytilova reveals itself. From stop-motion to slow motion, from psychedelic color grading to rainbow filters. The sublime art direction and funny fashionable characters of Marie and Marie have inspired many a fashion magazine from the sixties to the present day. Vera Chytilova is the poster girl of the Czech New Wave cinema, a movement that "made the Czech people collectively aware of the fact that we all participated in a system of oppression and incompetence." She was also intelligent, beautiful, philosophical and super funny.