![]() ![]() Trying to describe the plot to you wouldn’t really be helpful because, honestly, there is so much going on in the movie it would get too complicated. We follow the 13-year-old as she manoeuvers through a week in her life. Yeah, that’s this movie.īased on the Czechoslovakian novel of the same name by Vítězslav Nezval, Valerie and her Week of Wonders stars Jaroslava Schallerová in the title role of Valerie. You know the ones I’m talking about, where, out of the blue, an image pops into your head and you just start seeing a slideshow of images. It didn’t help that this movie was like some fucked up kind of fever dream where you weren’t really sure what the hell was going on but you knew you liked it. It was one of those movies I kept thinking about. They can also be very dry and boring so, again, I put Valerie into this category. Everything looks so odd the colors, films stock, techniques… all otherworldly. It’s like someone brought these films from another planet. If you haven’t seen a Russian fairytale movie from the 1930s-1960s, seek one out. We had been watching Russian fairytale movies and I just lumped it in with those. My husband came across Valerie and Her Week of Wonders back in February of 2015 and, frankly, when he gave me a brief synopsis of it, I wasn’t exactly thrilled to watch it. ![]() After rewatching Suspiria this weekend (yes, again), it got me thinking about the movie I’ve decided to highlight today. ![]()
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