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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780024960
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780024966
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Release Date: February 12, 2002
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 55045
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1966
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With sixteen women to each man, the odds are against Andula in her desperate search for love-that is, until a rakish piano player visits her small factory town and temporarily eases her longings. A tender and humorous look at Andula's journey, from the first pangs of romance to its inevitable disappointments, Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky) immediately became a classic of the Czech New Wave and earned Milos Forman the first of his Academy Award® nominations.
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Rating:  - The poignant, sweet story of Andula; one of Milos Foreman's fine, warm and subversive movies
Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde is a wonderful movie...sweet and awful. Sweet, because Forman gives us no one we can dislike as he tells us the story of Andula (Hana Brejchova), a young factory worker in the depressing town of Zruc, making endless pairs of shoes alongside dozens of other young women. Not Milda (Vladimir Puchott), the young piano player who comes to town with a band, seduces Andula, and then leaves for Prague. Not the factory bosses, or the other young women who are bored and eager for husbands (they outnumber the men 16 to one). Not even the regiment of aging, smoking, unattractive soldiers who were based in Zruc to lower the odds a bit. Not Milda's parents, who one day find Andula at their apartment door, suitcase in hand, because she gave her heart to Milda and took him seriously when he told her to come visit him in Prague sometime.
And awful, in a desperate sort of way, because Forman let's us see the lives all these people live in a Communist society that is petty, officious and incompetent. We can smile at a lecture an older woman gives the young factory girls about maintaining their honor and dignity with boys; we can even smile when two young leaders stand up and call for a vote to dedicate all of them to this idea; and we can smile when every girl in the room raises her hand to vote in favor, none against and none abstaining. Then we realize it might not be a good idea to snicker at a vote in favor of honor when a boss thinks it would be a good idea.
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Rating: - Emotional Voyage
This was a gift from my wishlist which was recommended by an old friend who had never seen it. I am very glad to have seen it. I was familiar with Milos Forman and I love the city of Prague.
The visual aspect of the film is "gritty reality" not beautiful Prague. Somehow I was taken on a trip back in time. Every harsh encounter I ever had with a love interest was revisited. Every stab of rejection was made to bleed again. Within this psychological voyage, is also a great deal of humor. I feel humor is what keeps us all interested in continued breathing.
The enterview with Milos Forman really made the disk worth owning. I love the fact that he uses many nonactors and that much of their reaction is their own interpretation.
Rating:  - Drab
This Czech film from the mid 1960s is a drab piece of socialist realism, in the form of a quite bitter comedy (by Milos Forman, one of the most overrated filmmakers ever). The story: Milda, a young pianist goes to drab industrial small town to play one night, meets the bird-brained working class blonde Andula during the ball, they make love at his hotel room, he returns to Prague, she breaks with her boyfriend after a fight, and decides to go to Prague to meet Milda. As it happens, the pianist lives with his parents, who are totally opposed with Andula staying at their rundown apartment (not that Milda wants her to stay). It is a quite artless film, and it is also ugly the way Andula is treated throughout. Only redeeming feature is Jana Brejchova's affecting performance as a not very bright person who seems to have been bruised more than one time by life.
Rating: - Love will find its way!
"Loves of a blonde" is a bitter, nostalgic and crude gaze around the lives, customs, social prejudices and naĂŻve hopes of Czech Socialist Republic by then (1965), hilariously supported and featured as a modern fairy tale.
A very young woman falls in love with a pianist in occasion of a party. And since that impetuous love affair, she will make the best she can in order to maintain alive and materialize the eternal promises love, the lovers use to say.
The picture mirrors in a memorable and smart introduction, the affective necessities of the human being in that initial dialogue between an avid entrepreneur and an officer.
The nothing glamorous meeting between her and the parents of his fiancée, will arouse al kind of laughs due the sudden clash of two well different generations.
A film that breathes humankind and reminds us the love is in everywhere, no matter social barriers or contrasted points of view: the love will always will find an exit door.
Remarkable film that although is a bit dated, constitutes a brilliant psychological exploration about the state of social fermentation that it was nestling in those years.
Rating: - Loves of a Blonde
Director Forman's breakthrough feature in his native country portrays a warm, affecting humanity even as it lampoons the inherent awkwardness and mystery of relations between the sexes. In all, this deceptively simple, charming story tackles the complex question of how love can function in a dysfunctional world. Both young leads are enormously appealing, particularly Brejchova, and those parents of Milda's are also worth the wait. All in all, this is one blonde that's easy to love.
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