With: Jitka Cerhová (Marie I), Ivana Karbanová (Marie II), Julius Albert (elderly gentleman), Jan Klusák (young gentleman), Marie Cešková, Jiřina Myšková (women in toilet)
Director: Věra Chytilová
Production co: Filmové studio Barrandov
Screenplay: Věra Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová, Pavel Jurácek
Photography: Jaroslav Kucera
Editor: Miroslav Hájek
Music: Jiří Šust, Jiří Slitr
REVIEWS

“Daisies is a brightly colored surrealist comedy starring a couple of chicks in search of kicks. Spawned by the Prague Spring, the best friends undertake a quest to find a life different from their previously regimented patriarchal society. Picking up men to fleece for fancy dinners, escaping sexual obligations by hopping trains, chatting up a man on the phone while roasting and cutting sausages in their room, the two are transgressive adventurers and inveterate consumers. They must be seen to be believed: frenzied, obsessive, undaunted until a Boschian ending plunges them into the consequences of their actions. Chytilová made a visionary masterpiece that has always been ahead of its time: feminist for the seventies, punk performance for the eighties, postapocalyptic vision for the nineties, it deserves absolute celebration for its empowering invention of female buddies on the move.”

— B. Ruby Rich, BAMPFA

“One of the most exhilarating stylistic and psychedelic explosions of the 1960s, is Chytilová’s highly aggressive feminist farce Daisies, which erupts in all directions. At any given moment, shots can switch from luscious color to black-and-white to sepia to a rainbow succession of color filters, shatter into shards like broken glass, rattle through rapid-fire montages like machine-gun volleys, and leap freely between time frames and locations.”

​— Jonathan Rosenbaum
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Dunedin 
Wednesday, 3 April, 7:30pm

Whanganui 
Monday, 29 April, 7:00pm

Canterbury
Monday, 6 May, 7:30pm

Nelson 
Thursday, 11 April, 6:00pm*

Wellington 
Monday, 29 April, 6:15pm*

Auckland 
Monday, 6 May, 6:30pm*

Hamilton 
Monday, 20 May, 8:00pm*

Palmerston North  
Monday, 27 May, 6:00pm*

*Denotes DCP screening
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