A very slight film with a certain amount of charm but too weighed down with the gawky and seeming inept young hero. The girls are all fine and surprisingly erotic but apart from one guy at the station who seems to get all the action, everyone else seems too old, too crazy or just too awkward. It looks good, in that 60s New Wave sort of way. Because of the similarity of such Czech films of the period I have seen it pondered as to whether the films were like this because the people of that country have a very strange relationship with sexual activity or whether it was simply the style generated by the one film school that gave rise to this particular group of directors. More interesting than the film, I'm afraid. But there are fine moments - the horse ridden across the tracks and out of the steam, its lady rider adjusting her seating, the delightful young girl who lays down to be rubber stamped up to her bottom but it isn't quite enough to make this as good as the Milos Foreman films just before and just after.
Review of Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains
(1966)
delightful young girl who lays down to be rubber stamped up to her bottom
22 December 2017