Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Direction
Chytilová's fearless experimentalism — banned immediately by Czech censors.
Editing
Dizzying collage technique that predates music video aesthetics by decades.
Costume
Those matching striped swimsuits? Iconic synchronized chaos.
Director
Věra Chytilová
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chytilová shot the entire film without a completed script, inventing scenes daily with her cinematographer. The 'wasting food' montage so enraged communist officials that the film was banned for a year.
Daisies is widely considered the most radical feminist film of the 1960s — yet Chytilová resisted the label, calling it 'a philosophical documentary in the form of a farce.'
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