★★★★☆ Centring on one long, hot summer in the lives of two Bratislavan youths as they fall in and out of love, The Sun in a Net (1963) is a sensual, intimate tale of young romance and family dysfunction, set against the backdrop of an eclipse. A triumph of the Czech New Wave, Štefan Uher's second feature is as formally innovative and thematically provocative as you would expect from the movement, and Uher's close analysis of the hard realities of everyday socialism under the regime are cleverly disguised under poetic metaphor. It remains a gem of Slovak cinema, comparable even with Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953).
A teenage photographer, nicknamed Fayolo (Marián Bielik), and his young girlfriend Bela (Jana Beláková) pass the summer sunbathing to the sounds of the radio and indulging in shallow, existential chatter. When their relationship runs into trouble, Fayolo joins a summer work collective and pursues a relationship with...
A teenage photographer, nicknamed Fayolo (Marián Bielik), and his young girlfriend Bela (Jana Beláková) pass the summer sunbathing to the sounds of the radio and indulging in shallow, existential chatter. When their relationship runs into trouble, Fayolo joins a summer work collective and pursues a relationship with...
- 8/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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