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capricious summer (jiri menzel)
a diverting enough little 1968 czech film in which nothing happens.
three guys go swimming.
a cheap circus comes to town.
the arrival generates a brief period of sexual tension as a result of which some ambiguous events may or may not occur.
most when it is dark.
so it's hard to see.
two of the three guys who were swimming at the outset end up wearing either a sling or a bandage.
the cheap circus leaves.
strange thing is that the film is kinda cool, in that sense i assume finding oneself in a czech country town in june of 1968 can be. the june 1968 seems important somehow, but more for a viewer like me than for anyone in the film.
one guy likes to go swimming while smoking a cigar tho.
uh......
if you find yourself tired of watching films in which lots of stuff happens and would prefer one that lets you kind of hover in a place that you would not have otherwise hovered for 74 minutes, and which puts you in the position of never quite knowing what is going on because the subtitles are surreal, they cannot possibly be accurate, then check this out.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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