Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (#761)
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil JireÅ” is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
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New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Three early shorts by director Jaromil JireÅ”: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960)
New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames
Interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava SchallerovƔ and Jan KlusƔk
Alternate 2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the musicās origins
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Jana Prikryl
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (#761)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (#761)
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil JireÅ” is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Three early shorts by director Jaromil JireÅ”: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960)
New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames
Interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava SchallerovƔ and Jan KlusƔk
Alternate 2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the musicās origins
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Jana Prikryl
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A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil JireÅ” is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Three early shorts by director Jaromil JireÅ”: Uncle (1959), Footprints (1960), and The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960)
New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames
Interviews from 2006 with actors Jaroslava SchallerovƔ and Jan KlusƔk
Alternate 2007 psych-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie Project, with a new video piece on the musicās origins
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Jana Prikryl
