LUMI Presents X European Arthouse Cinema Day: Daisies 
Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová). Chosen by our LUMI Programmers in celebration of European Arthouse Cinema Day.
Believing the world to be “spoiled,” the women embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously.
Matching her anarchic message with an equally radical aesthetic, director Chytilová, with the close collaboration of cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera, unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts, and surreal costumes designed by co-writer, Ester Krumbachová.
The result is Daisies, an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.
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