https://vo.rs/tags/new-wave/Latest from the New-Wave desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/daisies-chytilovas-anarchic-feminist-provocation/<p>There is a moment early in Věra Chytilová&rsquo;s <em>Daisies</em> — <em>Sedmikrásky</em>, 1966 — when the two heroines, both named Marie, sit in a field and conclude that since the world is spoiled, they will be spoiled too. From that childish logic the film launches into seventy-four minutes of pure, gleeful destruction: gorging on stolen food, conning elderly men out of expensive lunches, snipping images and each other into paper collage, and finally demolishing a banquet in the most joyously anarchic food-fight ever committed to celluloid. It is one of the great provocations of the 1960s and one of the foundational works of feminist cinema, and it remains genuinely, dangerously funny.</p>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000