Sedmikrasky 1966

Critics score:
75 / 100

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David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Brace yourself for some of the most exuberant and disjunctive Pop Art imagery ever put onscreen, including scenes in which the scissors-happy hedonists shred not only objects and each other but the movie itself. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Two zany young teenage girls are the focus of this extremely funny, witty and expertly-fashioned film. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: My favorite Czech film, and surely one of the most exhilarating stylistic and psychedelic eruptions of the 60s, this madcap and aggressive feminist farce by Vera Chytilova explodes in any number of directions. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: One of the great outpourings of cinematic invention in an age of over-all artistic liberation. Read more

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: A pretentiously kookie and laboriously overblown mod farce. Read more

Adrian Turner, Time Out: As an allegory it lacks any resonance, as a movie it stinks. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: From elderly apparatchiks to cinematic continuity, nothing is sacred, as the director punctures the illusion of "civilized" society and viewer's frontal lobes. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: These two slim, mod beauties revel in their infantile defilement before swinging from chandeliers and catwalking down the buffet table. Read more