Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů), by Luboš Fišer

Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů)

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1.	The Magic Yard 05:47	buy track
2.	Talk With Grandmother 03:55	buy track
3.	The Letter 01:08	buy track
4.	The Sermon 02:56	buy track
5.	Losing The Way 01:15	buy track
6.	The Visit 02:13	buy track
7.	The Work Of Death 01:02	buy track
8.	Dinner 01:09	buy track
9.	Dense Smoke 01:35	buy track
10.	The Contract/The Wedding 01:49	buy track
11.	The Punishment 01:09	buy track
12.	Disquiet 01:37	buy track
13.	Awakening 00:59	buy track
14.	Brother And Sister 00:58	buy track
15.	Sacrifice 02:16	buy track
16.	The Letter 2/Friends 01:52	buy track
17.	In Flames 01:23	buy track
18.	Puppets 01:41	buy track
19.	Homeless 01:26	buy track
20.	Questions And Answers 02:06	buy track
21.	Confession 00:51	buy track
22.	Forgiveness 01:28	buy track
23.	And The Last 05:07	buy track

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It has been exactly ten years since Finders Keepers Records rst liberated Luboš Fišer’s immaculate soundtrack music for Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (Valerie A Týden Divu) from the vaults of the Barrandov Studio in Prague. As the inaugural release of an ongoing discography of previously unreleased scores from the hugely creative “Film Miracle” that occurred during and after the Czech New Wave (CNW), this score will always retain a special place in the heart of the label as well as our listeners who consistently request an updated repress of this signi cant vinyl milestone. Having grown in status from an obscure and misunderstood socialist-era art house oddity, via the hands of risqué foreign uff merchants, to nally nd its rightful audience as a bona de surrealist cinematic masterpiece of world class standards, this 1970 lm adaptation of Vítezslav Nezval’s 1935 avant-garde novella (a lm that literally cross-pollinated Max Ernst’s A Week Of Kindness and Lewis Carols Alice In Wonderland) has garnered widespread critical acclaim. Inspiring ongoing generations of visual artists, musicians, writers and lmmakers - all of whom regard this truly individualistic and inimitable surrealist lm poem to be an indelible in uence - Valerie continues to impregnate their daily artistic referential fabric.
Commonly considered to be the swansong of the CNW, following a huge paranoia fuelled government lm cull in 1969, owing to the fact it is last government approved feature lm of the post-Prague Spring era to combine the efforts of controversial lmmakers from the FAMU (Filmová A Televizní Fakulta Akademie Múzických Umení) lm school, Valerie would also be the rst of an exciting and essential new fertile strain of Czech made cinema fantastique. Successfully condensing the nal drops of CNW lifeblood through a series of presumed apolitical scary/fairy tales, directors like Jaromil Jireš and Juraj Herz used surrealism, traditionalism and fantasy to rejuvenate the creative energy of apathetic lmmakers evading government scrutiny via creatively coded artistic allegories. By strategically choosing to adapt a pre-war surrealist melodrama written by a communist convert author called Vítezslav Nezval and based in a non-speci c traditional era, the previously censored lmmaker Jaromil Jireš was able to craft what many consider his nest lmic hour and what would later become his most universally received achievement. Enlisting the individual talent of some of the CNW’s most formidable stalwarts, in what might have been their most creatively challenging roles, Jireš managed to unintentionally establish a new genre format that was both stylistically and sonically tuned to the trends of the impending decade thus future-proo ng his career and providing a woozy gateway drug to an otherwise time-locked lost movement.

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