VIFF 2018: Winter Flies
Czech Republic
The original title of this oddly delightful Czech miniature translates roughly as Everything Will Be…, and that open-ended phrase perfectly describes the future lives of two mismatched teenagers who happen to find themselves on the road when the older one steals a nice car and heads out across a snowy countryside in search of, well, something.
The breezily paced film is well-structured; we know that the main boy—a shaven-headed showoff who talks tough but is essentially kindhearted—has been caught by small-town police striking in their ineptitude. In flashbacks, we see the places, people, and dogs these lads encounter on their aimless travels. And we get a gentle sense of the torpor today’s children feel in a world where authority figures are almost uniformly unreliable. Highly recommended.
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