Could Czech New Wave filmmaker Věra Chytilová have anticipated how her 1966 masterwork Daisies would resonate with the twenty-first century influencer aesthetic of Instagram and TikTok? Possibly.

| Jul 28, 2024

A feminist triumph, Chytilová’s film satirizes the bourgeoisie, authoritarianism, and the patriarchy, all while being unabashedly girly.

| Feb 12, 2024

Madness follows austerity, arbitrariness follows discipline, an orgy of colors follows gray. The inconsistencies in the story, the strangeness of the setting feel effortlessly modern, as does the extremely original use of photography.

| Oct 4, 2023

Arguably the best film to come out of the Czech New Wave.

| Feb 14, 2023

...you can never dig too deep into the celluloid riches of a period that was liberating for cinema almost everywhere, quite remarkably so in nations of the Eastern Bloc...

| Jan 17, 2023

With its recent 4k restoration, "Daisies" endures as a New Wave masterpiece and hyper-feminine smorgasbord of sensory pleasure.

| Nov 14, 2022

It is so cool, weird, and fun... A statement against the violence in this world.

| Aug 26, 2022

Much of Daisies’ charm stems from Cerhová and Karbanová’s impeccable chemistry, often moving in complete synchronicity with one another while their characters remain fundamentally unaligned with each other.

| May 4, 2022

A silly trifle demonstrating formal innovations, radical yet contentious gender politics, and harsh consequences.

| Jan 9, 2021

Its unconventional techniques involving color and editing, along with its bold ideology, place Daisies firmly as a paragon of the New Wave movement.

| Dec 3, 2020

Chytilova overtly says, 'I'm going to use cinema as a weapon against a world that uses these kinds of weapons'.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2020

...wreaks havoc with an explosive playfulness that wouldn't be out of place in a Looney Tunes cartoon.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2020

These women are doing more than just dallying with liberation; they may let themselves be a bit spoiled, but will continue to break down social conventions in the process, and not let any of their feminist energy or dissenting attitudes go to waste.

| Jul 27, 2020

Chytilova understands the feminine decorum expected of women in Czech society, and she undermines it at every turn... Irrespective of the film's political specifics, it's this rebellious spirit that feels so fresh.

| Jun 19, 2019

It's a symbolic film comprised of deliberately inconsistent artifice both in its look and sound... an approach that serves a narrative which never seeks coherency.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2018

A riotous explosion of colour, chaos and confusion.

| Oct 30, 2018

The Maries, and Daisies itself, are quintessential fruits of the Czech New Wave, deconstructing social hierarchies while embodying the free-flowing, iconoclastic ethos that roused and buoyed 1960s Czechoslovak cinema.

| Oct 16, 2018

As subversive as it is hilarious.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 6, 2015

[A] surreal, sexy, socialist pre-Prague Spring daydream: artful anarchy rules with bonus "mod" pop-art eyeball-kick fashion.

| Aug 26, 2014

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.

| Aug 26, 2014