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ALLEGORY OR IS IT A METAPHOR

Today's Eastern Europe film was Milos Foreman's

Horí, má panenko / Firemen's Ball (1967)

This has a harder edge and got Forman in trouble. He talks about it in the excellent interview included as a feature.

It is his first color film. Huge crowd scenes as it is almost entirely filmed in the Ball itself.

Quite a victory. It is funny, acerbic and, at the end, a bit sad.

The firemen create a cavalcade of bureaucratic mistakes for which no one is responsible. The connection to the communist regime is not buried very deeply. And it is hilarious which somehow turns the satyric knife a little harder.

This is a 5 out of Netflix5. Period.

Labels: films