What if Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s The Simple Life was directed by Jean Luc Godard?  Well, it might come out looking something like Věra Chytilová‘s ‘66 Czech gem, Daisies.  If you’ve never seen it on the small screen (it makes a great, Sunday afternoon pairing with another favorite Czech film of mine, 1970’s Valerie and Her Week Of Wonders), Angelenos can skip right to the big screen experience this Saturday night at Cinefamily.  Playing as part of their “Czech Your Head” series,

Daisies is a bubbling and buoyant spring of irrepressible female creativity; it is an overflowing audio-visual bouquet of color, music, and texture; it is a freewheeling and effervescent farce, a formal free-for-all, a paradoxical mixture of bourgeois indulgence and cultural critique, and it’s your next favorite movie.  Two young Czech girls (both named Marie) decide that the world is so corrupt that they might as well join in, and they do so with wild abandon—prancing, food-fighting, pranking old men, carousing in nightclubs, and creating anarchy everywhere they go.

 
Given that the financing of Daisies was furnished by the Czech government, it probably came as no surprise that the film was promptly banned upon its release—and not solely for reasons of content.  With its blatant wasting of food, serious objection was made to the “food orgy” that ends the film.

Daisies screens at Cinefamily, Saturday, 02.06 @ 7:30pm.