第五部份：捷克專題 | Part Five: Czech Republic Goes Public

一個都嚟唔到  The Opening and The Guest, Pencil on paper, 18.5 x 34cm, 2012

翻生花  Double Life of Veroniky, Pencil on paper, 20.5 x 35cm, 2011

極悲同盟  Conspirators of Displeasure, Pencil on paper, 19 x 34.5cm, 2012

一個都嚟唔到
導演：楊．布．紐婭／捷克／1958／79mins

一群藝術發熱友雖同樣住在鄰近的工作室，但秉承都市人的疏離傳統，甚少碰面，又或波折重重約極都約唔到。現在城中最大最潮的藝術展覽要開幕了， 他們就約定在開幕當晚碰面。怎知來到門口的刹那，他們被一股神物的力量阻擋，久違的朋友與難得的藝術品就在眼前，他們卻無法再前進。在死都要去開幕的決心下，他們不得使出渾身解數，解開各自的心魔，結局卻出人意表。連同外貌極像列寧的開幕藝術家，楊對當時的政權極盡嘲諷之能事，可謂愛之深責之切。被匈牙利電影雙週選為五十年代十大傑作之一。


The Opening and the Guests
Director: Jan Bu Niuer / Czech Republic / 1958 / 79min
Cast: Jiri Jakubisko, Karel Menzel, Jaromil Sverák

A group of passionate artists live in studios near each other, but it is extremely difficult to bring them all together. The opening of the hottest art exhibition in town induces them to meet. The hall in which the exhibition is held has different entrances that the artists try to use; however, when arriving at an entrance there is a mysterious power stopping entry. Great art and friends are inside the hall, but they just cannot enter. Using their powers of determination, they try every means to enter. The film’s ending is a surprise. Voted by the Hungarian movie magazine, Filmmag, as one of the top ten movies of the 1950s.




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翻生花
導演：奧德里奇．利普斯迪基／捷克／1969／90mins

最可一不可再的關係，都敗在最不足道的節骨上。二人識於微時，形影不離，長大後卻被推著走跟著生活流。二人各自在畸形的基礎上建他們的沙之堡，昨日最親的某某已經變成陌生人。即使多年不見，他倆仍不斷重構前塵的段落，務求讓過去變成一道道選擇題，推倒重來，一錯再錯。時間最終磨蝕了所有，亦印證了世上根本沒有甚麼平行的宇宙， 讓我們能重頭再來的魔法其實叫電影。導演大膽運用菲林拼貼、倒帶、黑白彩色，交叉感染出一個華麗張狂的世界，普普達達超現實，我要我們在一起，你說得出，佢做得到。在那裡，凡事都能。


Double Life of Veroniky
Director: Oldrich Libsticky / Czech Republic / 1969 / 90min
Cast: Jan-Luc Gustav, Vera Karina

Rare, once-in-a-lifetime relationships, always fail because of the most trivial issues. Two people who have known each other since childhood had never been apart, but after growing up, they follow their own lives and time wounds their friendship. Later, they try to rebuild different phases of their relationship and turn the past into multiple-choice questions. There is, however, no such thing as a parallel world and movies are the only magic that allows us to restart again. The director uses different film formats, including collage, rewinding, black-and-white and colour to build a glamorous world. Pop art, surrealism - you name it, he does it. Everything is possible.





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極悲同盟
導演：法蘭蟻詠．胡薩克／捷克／1975／102mins

魚人系列是捷克最長的動畫連續劇，內容主要環繞一個魚頭人身的家庭的日常生活，胡氏以魚人諷刺時弊，最後惹得連時弊都要開腔去諷刺他。這部長片是胡氏初試啼聲的首作，為他贏得一代定格動畫大師的美譽。他對歐美甚至遠至日本的動畫都影響不少，特技是把不同的材質提昇到超凡脫俗的層次，但睇真啲，他提昇的，原來也是觀眾的心靈和知性。胡薩克的魚人系列首作是極難找的滄海遺珠，今回電影節高層專程飛抵布拉格游說資料館借出僅有的菲林版本播出。


Conspirators of Displeasure
Director: Frantnwl Husák / Czech Republic / 1975 / 102min
Cast: Milos Fireman, Ivan Passenger, Josef Papousek

It is almost impossible to find the first film of Husak’s Fish-man series. However, our film festival management flew to Prague and has persuaded the city’s film archive to lend their only version. The Fish-man series, the longest Czech animation series ever made, is about a Fish-man’s family life. Using Fish-man as a metaphor, Husak reflects his thoughts about society and is seen to be an attack on its institutions. This movie, Husak’s first in the series, established him as a legendary animator who has influenced both Western and Japanese animation. Skilled in raising his movies to another level, he also raises our hearts.