15th March 2001
Venue:7.30pm, in the Arts Building, Room B204 at UCD
Film By Jan Hrebejk.
A sweet but unsentimental observation of two nattering families living in an apartment in Prague in 1968, just before the Soviet invasion. While political and social tension get a look in (one man of the house is a Communist functionary, the other a stridently anti-socialist war vet), the warmth and wit of the film emanates from the appealing, awkwardly human characters and naturalistic performances. In the end, the characters are imbued with such humanity, you feel the gravity of the moment when everyone awakens to the Soviet invasion.
Mark Griffin, Society film critic No. 002.