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Barn Cinema
20/08/2018
- 20/08/2018
Excluded Dates: 14th
Totnes
Broadway Cinema
17/07/2018
- 17/07/2018
Nottingham
Chapter
12/07/2018
- 12/07/2018
Cardiff
Depot
25/08/2018
- 25/08/2018
Lewes
Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)
26/08/2018
- 26/08/2018
Dundee
Eden Court Theatre
07/07/2018
- 07/07/2018
Filmhouse
06/08/2018
- 06/08/2018
Edinburgh
Hebden Bridge Picture House
23/08/2018
- 23/08/2018
Hebden Bridge
Independent Cinema MK
26/07/2018
- 26/07/2018
(Screening as part of Vagabond Film Festival)
Milton Keynes
mac
09/08/2018
- 09/08/2018
Birmingham
Phoenix
04/08/2018
- 04/08/2018
Leicester
Regent Street Cinema
08/08/2018
- 08/08/2018
Westminster,
London
Saffron Screen
30/07/2018
- 30/07/2018
Saffron Walden
Showroom Workstation
05/06/2018
- 05/06/2018
Sheffield
The Lexi Cinema
23/07/2018
- 23/07/2018
Brent,
London
The Poly
11/07/2018
- 11/07/2018
Falmouth
Ultimate Picture Palace
29/07/2018
- 30/07/2018
Oxford
Watershed
15/08/2018
- 15/08/2018
Bristol
Barn Cinema
20/08/2018
- 20/08/2018
Excluded Dates: 14th
Totnes
Watershed
15/08/2018
- 15/08/2018
Bristol
Broadway Cinema
17/07/2018
- 17/07/2018
Nottingham
mac
09/08/2018
- 09/08/2018
Birmingham
Phoenix
04/08/2018
- 04/08/2018
Leicester
Chapter
12/07/2018
- 12/07/2018
Cardiff
Depot
25/08/2018
- 25/08/2018
Lewes
Saffron Screen
30/07/2018
- 30/07/2018
Saffron Walden
Ultimate Picture Palace
29/07/2018
- 30/07/2018
Oxford
Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)
26/08/2018
- 26/08/2018
Dundee
Eden Court Theatre
07/07/2018
- 07/07/2018
Filmhouse
06/08/2018
- 06/08/2018
Edinburgh
Hebden Bridge Picture House
23/08/2018
- 23/08/2018
Hebden Bridge
Showroom Workstation
05/06/2018
- 05/06/2018
Sheffield
Independent Cinema MK
26/07/2018
- 26/07/2018
(Screening as part of Vagabond Film Festival)
Milton Keynes
The Poly
11/07/2018
- 11/07/2018
Falmouth
Regent Street Cinema
08/08/2018
- 08/08/2018
Westminster,
London
The Lexi Cinema
23/07/2018
- 23/07/2018
Brent,
London
Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová, Marie Češková
Boredom, bikinis and a blistering critique of the beauty myth. From its first seconds, Vera Chytilova’s (1929-2014) ever-fresh Daisies kicks wickedly against the pricks and feels as if it was made today.
An innovative and brilliantly absurd masterpiece of the ’60s Czech New Wave, the film was made three years before the Prague Spring but dissent is clearly in the air. Daisies follows the misadventures of two young women both called Marie (played by Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová), who rebelliously scam rich dates, cut off their own heads and wreck an official feast. The film’s anarchic attitude saw it banned by the Czech authorities and it stayed under wraps for years.
Some have called the film’s freewheeling rage against the world proto-riot grrrl, and the two Maries (defiantly unholy) are a total riot. If you haven’t caught up with this genuine feminist classic, see why it’s as thrilling now as it was fifty years ago.
Accompanying short film
We are delighted to make short films available to exhibitors booking specific features from Revolt, She Said at no extra cost. To accompany screenings of Daisies we will be screening Saute Ma Ville (Blow Up My Town).
Our advisory certificate for both films is 15.
Saute Ma Ville (Blow Up My Town)
Dir: Chantal Akerman | Belgium| 1968 | 13 mins | available on digital download
Made when she was just 18, Chantal Akerman dropped out of film school to make this disturbing look at the claustrophobia of the domestic. A caustic prelude to her masterpiece Jeanne Dielman. If you would like to screen Saute Ma Ville in addition to Daisies, simply state this in your email to bookings@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk.
Images from Daisies
Věra Chytilová’s 60s masterpiece Daisies is a brilliantly surreal trip into an aesthetic paradise, and a utopia where women are liberated from the conservative conventions of etiquette
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