Jan Budař is known as a talented actor who carefully chooses his roles, which earned him three Czech Lions: two in the supporting role (Masters, Wenceslaus), one in the main (Boredom in Brno) acting category. In addition, there is also a screenwriter who received a Lion for the screenplay k Boredom in Brno, which he wrote together with Vladimír Morávek. And he is also a music composer and singer, but worthless. Is there anything that the multi-talented Budař can’t do, is there anything that he wouldn’t be able to do as a renaissance personality? PRINCE MOM he is making his debut as a director and producer.
Jan Budař u Prince Mom he played several roles. In addition to portraying the title character, he wrote, directed, produced, composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the film, and co-sang the ending song. And indeed: the result is a unified vision, which, however, will not completely satisfy the audience expecting a conventional fairy tale, or a fairy tale based on various post-revolutionary traditions, judges Marek Slovák. It also does not contain fantasy elements (such as The Watchmaker’s Apprentice or The Princess Cursed in Time), which would appeal to a contemporary audience accustomed to foreign models. It does include a certain dismemberment and infantilization of evil, which is characteristic of the costars (Princess of the Mill I and II, From the Hell of Happiness I and II, etc.), but with a certain unexpected twist-revelation. And there are no shortage of political allusions, when the titular princess is a self-centered (future) ruler who does not leave his little castle, does not know the common people and hugs trees, but unlike such a Devil’s quill, he does not focus on the political-critical dimension.
Marek believes that Prince Mama it is much closer to a psychological drama with a title character who has an Oedipus complex, on the one hand, it copes with death and mortality as a part of life. The film uses the scheme of fairy tales, but varies it, because it is not Stupid John who goes into the world, but a little princess – and shows what happens when princes and princesses are overserved.
When have you ever heard classical music by Puccini, Mozart or Verdi in a fairy tale? When have you seen a fairy tale that emphasizes long shots with thoughtful composition? Prince Mama can be an expensive art-therapy of the creator-all-rounder, for which the State Fund contributed four million. According to Marko, it is primarily proof that Budař really manages everything, and that is how he evaluates this probe 70 % .
Men fake love for sex
Prince Mom adults will appreciate it more, because for children it is too slow and in some places too scary, for teenagers it contains too few pop culture references and western influences. How satisfying it is for the target audience SEEK WOMEN BEHIND EVERYTHING directed by Miroslav Šmídmajer, (co)creator of the Three Mádlovins (Hell with the princess, I wake up yesterday, Celebrity Ltd), answered Jana Bébarová. According to her, this Czech romantic comedy is “a fairly harmless film, which, thank God, is finally not burdened with pernicious sexism and chauvinism (for a change, in every scene, the product placement “just” hits the eyes)”.
Jan appreciates a shift within the genre because we’re not watching desperate women doing desperate things, which may have been helped by the fact that the screenplay was written by Dagmar Šťastná. Behind everything, look for a woman, thus focuses on “the pitfalls of partner relationships.” Hannah Vagnerová shows that she is not only a beautiful and attractive woman, but above all a talented actress, which she fully demonstrated, for example, in Sněží or Hranice lásky,” emphasizes Jana. For Marek Vašut as her acting partner again and again portrays a narcissistic lecher, condemning Janawhile Marek thinks that Vasut doesn’t even have to play this much.
According to Jana, the essence Seek women behind everything describes the relational wise-word that men fake love to have sex and women fake sex to have love. It is not only for this knowledge and insight that he bestows helpful ones 50 %.
Look for the father behind everything
Former presidential candidate Karel Schwarzenberg also has a problem with expressions of love. At least with expressions of paternal love, as documented by his daughter Lila Schwarzenberg together with Lukas Sturm v MY FATHER PRINCE.
The time-lapse documentary, which was created over the course of five years, has similar to Prince Mama promotion that raises false expectations. “The movie poster using Karl Schwarzenberg’s ‘punk’ presidential campaign is quite misleading because the priority is an intimate conversation between the daughter and the father. On the concept of talking heads, Lila Schwarzenberg reveals a complicated relationship with her father, characterized by aloofness,” thinks Jana. According to her, the strongest moments in the entire spectacle are those in which the daughter confronts the father with filmed parts of her own comments about their emotionally parched relationship. In addition, he also appreciates “the line of reflection of the family’s heritage and its fate during the Second World War and the era of communism”, Jan also appreciates the informative value of the film.
Marek and Jana agree on everything. According to him, it is My father, the prince valuable precisely for its perspective of Lily Schwarzenberg, who is both inside and outside: on the one hand, she is a daughter with a complicated relationship with her father (inside), on the other hand, as a person living abroad, she can offer a perspective on political events with a certain distance (outside). Thanks to “inside”, we as viewers also have access to a large number of archival materials, be it photographs or family videos, while it never slips into the tabloid plane.
Neither Jana nor Marek have a prince as their father, although they undoubtedly both have daddy-issues and such My father, the prince evaluates to 70 % (Marek), respectively 80 % (Jana).
Monogamy a rap
Marek and Jana also evaluated Czech documentaries about people who were not only born well, but can, for example, climb very high (Adam Ondra: Breaking the boundaries) or rap (PSH: The Neverending Story). The second title listed, PSH: ENDLESS STORYwas just like My father, the prince presented at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, where it won the Audience Award of the newspaper Právo. The nostalgic documentary about the trio of rappers Vladimír 518, Orion and Mike Trafik, known under the joint group Peneři strýček homeboye (PSH), aroused a contradictory response.
Štěpán Vodrážka gives an insight into the history of PSH and with humor reveals the beginnings of the personalities of Vladimír 518, Orion and Mike Trafik, their paths to rap and joint creation. The audience award from Karlovy Vary didn’t surprise me – it just proves that rap is a style that young people have been living with for the past twenty years,” Jana thinks. Marek, in turn, explains the festival prize as proof that among the other festival films, this sentimental look back had a refreshing effect, but for him the result is far too superficial.
Endless story it is divided into chapters (named after songs or albums), but these are too short to go in any depth. And this despite the fact that individual topics are very attractive when discussing drug addiction, relationships with women and the issue of monogamy, etc. While the documentaries and series of Šimon Šafránek (King Skate, RapStory) are carried by music, PSH has only to look back with a tear in the eye, albeit with a certain irony. This is because shots from vignettes are inserted and the entire documentary is framed as a pop culture journey for people weaned on the nineties switching between TV channels.
He was for Jana PSH: Infinite the story is a real banger, so he gives it 90 %while Marek wants more than a full-length beautiful lament for the friendship of people rapping for young people, so he gives disappointed 50 %.
Look for a woman behind every successful man
However, Marek appreciated the sometimes imaginative staged scenes at PSH, such as when monogamy is discussed while one of the actors is at the pram. The issue of relational dynamics and influence on career is also raised by ADAM ONDRA: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES about an Olympic mountaineer who has a female mountaineer as his partner.
“The staff of Jan Šimánek and Petr Záruba followed the famous Czech mountaineer for three years, when, among other things, he was preparing for the Olympics in Tokyo,” sums up the essentials of Jana. “In contrast to the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, which emphasizes the ‘suicidal’ style of climbing and the background of filming incredible, terrifying performances, Adam Ondra: Push the boundaries more deeply. Especially in the complex portrayal of who Adam Ondra is and what his relationship is with his partner, later wife Iva,” explains Jana. And he adds: “Due to sacrificing her own climbing career at the expense of parenting and supporting her husband, Iva turns out to be a very important character in the film and gives it another, important dimension.”
Marek is also glad that it is not another domestic biography or a portrait of someone who can run/sprint/compose/climb, because there is a feminist level with Iva, Adam Ondra’s partner, and her submission to her partner’s success. The film deviates not only from the given line, but also thanks to the direction of the experienced creative duo Jan Šimánek and Petr Záruba. The first named is a long-time photographer and cameraman of climbers and so-called highliners, the second as a cameraman shot a documentary series with Adam Ondra The Balkans up and down.
You are Jana Adam Ondra: Push the boundaries valued at 80%at Marko’s, the Czech Spider-Man only climbed on 70 %.
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