Czech cinema's most unhinged meet-cute: two broken souls colliding in a psych ward.
Sad love story about Martin, who is sent to a psychiatric hospital for observation after displays of hooliganism, and Markéta who is recovering from post-traumatic shock after her mother's suicide.
Acting
Jirásková's fragile volatility is genuinely uncomfortable to watch.
Direction
Marek walks the comedy-tragedy tightrope without a net.
Production
Gritty institutional realism that reeks of cheap cigarettes and linoleum.
Director
Pavel Marek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the Czech New Wave's late-90s resurgence, when post-communist cinema grappled with institutional failure and individual madness.
The dead beetle itself — crushed early, carried throughout — becomes a memento mori the characters can't stop obsessing over.
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