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    Traps

    Věra CHYTILOVÁ 1998 Czech Republic Fiction color 124min Czech 35mm
    This is a feminist black comedy of the traps that lie ahead of us. A very black comedy by the "Margaret of Czech Cinema Thatcher",Věra CHYTILOVÁ. When her car breaks down, a young woman accepts a lift from two men. The episode turns into rape. To get her revenge, the woman who is a vet, castrates the men. When
    they in turn decide to get even, all three characters suddenly find themselves in traps. The biggest trap in the movie is the life itself with its instinct of self-preservation, compelling us to continuously re-invent ourselves. The other traps are the love, the inhuman nature of the being and the pride. There are more traps along the path of our lives, such as the desire to capture the world, to win, to acquire power, to rule and to possess, even if that means using violence. It is also a story about how just one single event can turn our lives upside down. The story is regarded as a cruel depiction of post-communist Czech society.

    Director

    Věra CHYTILOVÁ

    Born in Ostrava in 1929, and known as "the first lady of Czech cinema" and "the most avant-garde female director in Eastern Europe," she also plays an important role in the Czech New Wave movement. She went to FAMU in 1957, focusing on film directing. Her graduation film The Ceiling was already very impressive. Her style is both controversial and diverse, but most of her films have one thing in common: they all try to analyze various issues in the patriarchal society from a feminist perspective.

    Věra CHYTILOVÁ

    1961 The Ceiling
    1962 A Bagful of Flies
    1963《薇拉與伊娃》Something Different
    1965 The Automat World
    1966《野雛菊》Daisies
    1969《天堂的果實》Fruit of Paradise
    1976《禁果遊戲》The Apple Game
    1978 Inexorable Time
    1979 Pretas Story
    1980 Kalamita
    1983 The Very Late Afternoon of the Faun
    1984 Prague: The Troubled Heart of Europe
    1986 Wolf's Hole
    1987 The Jester and the Queen
    1988 Tainted Horesplay
    1990 Tomas Garrigue Masaryk a Liberator
    1991 My Citizens of Prague Understand Me
    1992 The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodbye
    1998《陷阱》Traps
    2000《天堂禁戀》Ban from Paradise
    2006 Pleasant Moments

    Director/ Věra CHYTILOVÁ Director of Photography/ Štěpán KUČERA Producer/ Viktor SCHWARCZ
    Story/ Věra CHYTILOVÁ, Eva KAČÍRKOVÁ Screenplay/ Věra CHYTILOVÁ, M.LÁZŇOVSKY, Tomáš
    HANÁK, David VÁVRA Gaffer/ Ivan GARDELKA Costumes/ Petra BAROCHOVÁ Sound/ Zdeněk
    TAUBLER Mixing/ Jan KACIAN Production Design/ František VOKŘÁL Make Up/ Jana RADILOVÁ
    Editing/ Ivana KAČÍRKOVÁ Cast/ Tomáš HANÁK, Miroslav DONUTIL, Zuzana STIVÍNOVÁ, Kateřina
    HAJNÁ, Eva HOLUBOVÁ, Daniela TŘEBICKÁ

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