Valerie and her week of wonders /
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enc...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | Czech |
| Language Notes: | In Czech, with optional subtitles in English. |
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
2015.
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| Series: | Criterion Collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
761. |
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| Summary: | A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies. |
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| Item Description: | DVD release of the 1970 motion picture. Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; Three early shorts by director Jaromil Jires ; New interview with Czechoslovak film scholar Peter Hames ; Interviews from 2006 with actors ; Alternate 2007 psycho-folk soundtrack to the film by the Valerie project, and a new video piece on the music's origins ; New English subtitle translation ; Plus, an essay by critic Jana Prikryl. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out pamphlet. |
| Format: | Blu-ray ; fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Jan Čuřík ; editor, Josef Valušiak ; music, Luboš Fišer. |
| ISBN: | 1681430010 9781681430010 |