I recently headed down to Test Presents most recent fashion film screening to see Vera Chytilova's Daisies the film was hosted in the very, lovely Council Chamber Screening Room at Bethnal Green's Town Hall Hotel. I had a little, look at what the film was all about before watching it, and on reading the film described as a “psychedelic, surreal Eastern European answer to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, I knew I'd love it.
Daisies is a Czechoslovakian film made in 1966. It's a totally, bonkers, tripped out tale of two wild, teenage Czech girls called Marie I & Marie II who are trying to understand the meaning of the world & their own lives, they decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well and accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks, in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
The film was banned by the Czech Government as a feminist farce...
Who wouldn't like a film about two, crazy girls who twirl around in fields of daisies, swing on chandeliers whilst having food fights, swim in psychedelic multi-coloured sea, wear thick layers of black eyeliner, pop coloured shift dresses & cute little handbags, wobble around train tracks, restaurants theatre shows with their sugar daddies... & are always on the hunt for some kind of debauched adventure?
This is my favourite scene from the film, the fashion show food fight, I want to act out this whole scene one day!
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