"Director: Vera Chytilova"

• Something Different / A Bagful Of Fleas - Two Films By Vera Chytilova | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  For Vera Chytilová, documentary and fiction were two equally adventurous processes. Something Different follows two women one strand as a documentary of a gymnast in gruelling training (real life Olympic gold-medallist Eva Bosáková), whilst the second is the fiction of a discontented housewife (Věra Uzelacová). In A Bagful of Fleas, young factory girls defying imposed rules are played by non-professionals and the film shot in a free-wheeling cinéma vérité style. These two terrific early works introduce themes evident across Chytilová's career: a female viewpoint in a world dominated by men, the expectations and strictures of female gender roles, and a strong critique of her society. Combining formalism with anarchy and spiked with rebellious humour, her films broke strictures of genre and ideology to chart a new path for Czechoslovak cinema. Available for the first time, the DVD presents these films from superb new high-definition digital transfers of the brand new restorations of the films by the Czech National Film Archive, and II Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna and also includes a booklet featuring a new essay on Chytilová and these films by Czech cinema expert Peter Hames.

• Daisies (Semikrásky) | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vera Chytilov'''s classic of surrealist cinema comes to Second Run DVD in an all-new digital transfer with improved picture and sound. A satirical wild and irreverent story of teenage rebellion. Two young women rebel against a degenerate and oppressive society attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture. A riotous punk-rock poem of a film that is both hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative Daisies was banned in native Czechoslovakia and director Vera Chytilov'' was forbidden to work until 1975.