Directed by Jaromil Jires
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
13-year-old Jaroslava Schallerova wanders through a nightmarish world of vampires, sexual predators and dead relatives. Everyone seems to be after her innocence: the vampires want her blood for immortal youth, a priest wants to satisfy his sexual perversion and her relatives manipulate her love for them. Luckily she has a pair of earrings which get her out of the most dire situations. More dream than fairy tale, its non-narrative structure is filled with imagery both beautiful and revolting. The most obvious interpretation, and there will be many, is that of a dysfunctional family and its effect on the young girl. The final scene strongly implies it is all just a dream, her way of coping with what must be a terrifying home life.
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