Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Directed by Jaromil Jires
Genres - Fantasy, Horror, Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller, Spirituality & Philosophy |
Sub-Genres - Coming-of-Age, Fantasy Adventure |
Release Date - Oct 16, 1970 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 85 min. |
Countries - Czechia |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Dan Pavlides
Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) is the young teenage girl who lives with her grandmother. She feels the first stirring of sexual awareness when a carnival parade comes to town. Eagle (Petr Kopriva) is the young man who presents her with a pair of magic earrings. Her fantasy adventures begin when she imagines she is the daughter of a bishop with a hideous visage. Her grandmother becomes a vampire. She pretends to be dead when a priest tries to rape her by swallowing one of the earrings. The line between dreams and reality is blurred in this surreal psychological fantasy.
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girl, sexual-awakening, grandmother, Catholicism, priest, vampire, sexual-fantasy, teenagers, rape