Fruit of Paradise
The Power of the Powerless: Banned Films from the Czechoslovak New Wave
September 21 - 23, 2018
Věra Chytilová’s follow-up to her avant-garde landmark Daisies is a radical retelling of Adam and Eve, a richly enigmatic odyssey that unfolds in a kaleidoscopic swirl of senses-scrambling sound and image.
Věra Chytilová’s follow-up to her avant-garde landmark Daisies is less heralded but may be even more audaciously abstract. Chytilová and Krumbachová’s script resets the story of Adam and Eve in a crumbling health spa where a married woman is menaced and fascinated by a mysterious stranger: a devilish charmer in a red velvet suit who may be a serial killer. Unfolding in a kaleidoscopic swirl of hallucinatory, highly processed imagery—including a stunning, primordial opening sequence of luscious, floral double exposures—and set to a thunderous, wall-to-wall symphonic score by Zdeněk Liška, Fruit of Paradise is a senses-scrambling odyssey rich in feminist and political symbolism.
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