- Description
Filmmakers like to choose festivals where people behave more relaxed, where carefully constructed masks fall from their characters. This time it's a wedding. The director Vladimír Drha focuses on the limited world of a not very good-looking tenement house, without letting us notice the tense nature of the time - he has chosen the turn of an epoch (it should be 1949), but the pervasive changes rushing in don't seem to have reached us from afar yet. People can still pretend to have a certain social classification (for example, belonging to a ‘honorific’), but for the most part it is already an empty shell, whose illusory and ridiculous nature is not yet fully realized. The aged narrator thus recalls the events he participated in as a young boy in those days...
