Offscreen
The Party and the Guests
16 March 2017 - 19h00
JAN NEMEC
CZ, 1966, 35mm, VOST FR & NL OND, 70' + 38'
Buñuel's surrealist legacy lives on in the utterly 'magical' urban environment of Prague, but while the scathing jokery of our party does bear resemblance to that of the master, it is a sharp-toothed beast of its own. Top entry in the 'subversion-through-comedy' category of the Eastern Bloc.
+ short film:
Joseph Kilian (Pavel Jurácek & Jan Schmidt, CZ, 1963, 35mm, 38')