Prezidentka

El fin de semana vi tres películas checas recientes que están en Netflix. Una terrible adaptación cinematográfica de una obra de teatro, un aburrimiento filosófico-esotérico y un cuento de hadas para adultos lleno de evidentes disparates, que sale de todo esto quizás de manera demasiado suprema como lo mejor. De principio a fin, sabemos lo que nos espera y lo que va a pasar: un romance predecible entre Cenicienta y Nottinghill. A veces escuchamos alusiones a la política checa, al anterior presidente, y podemos ponernos a pensar si a nosotros también nos gustaría tener como presidente a alguien como Čaputová. Geislerová y Vetchý actúan juntos muy bien, no defraudan, pero no aportan nada nuevo. Al final, lo más agradable es ver a Vanda Chaloupková, que tiene muy buen aspecto. La película es tonta y simple, pero al menos no tan terriblemente aburrida como las otras dos películas checas que están en Netflix. (29.10.2023)

While The Fairy Tales for Ema was a pure romantic comedy, Madame President is exclusively a romantic fairy tale for adults. Havlík came up with a nice idea to offer the Geisler/Vetchý pairing again, but it still needs someone else in the script to make it at least a little more believable. Even in the book version, it's a purposeful respite, with a happy ending for everyone, even the last doorknob. Whoever likes something like that will be fully satisfied. Others can, of course, happily look elsewhere. (01.11.2022)

What could be worse professionally than when you, as a member of the security team on duty, are asked where the subject you’re guarding is and you just helplessly shrug your shoulders? Trying for something like Notting Hill, where Ondřej Vetchý as the suitor of the head of state takes proven genre steps towards a cringe-level inspection. I seriously expected that at the end of that gathering, or whatever it was, he would appear as a reporter from Chisel and Brush and ask a question that would romantically save the situation! I also had a script where Miloš, tired of clicking on the internet, takes advantage of the spokesperson’s distraction and, in a blonde wig, sneaks through the accessible entrance into the lower castle to hunt for “passports.” I gave it to Vráťa for authorization, but unfortunately, it fell into the shredder. Everything falls in there now. (06.02.2023)