Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Jaromil Jireš, 1970

Spine #761

Picked by 3 guests

Fantasy / Adventure / Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Jaromil Jireš

Written by Ester Krumbachová, Jaromil Jireš

Cinematography Jan Čuřík

Edited by Josef Valušiak

Cast Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýžová, Petr Kopřiva, Jiří Prýmek, Jan Klusák, Libuše Komancová, Karel Engel, Alena Stojáková

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Florence Welch actor

“Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. This film as well has been a reference for me since my first album, "Lungs." Some of the images and the sort of... Medieval, vampire, witchcraft, this film has everything, and a lot of it is about young women coming of age and the hallucinatory experience of that, and I do think the sort of surrealist elements about girlhood... I think people are really drawing on that currently... It’s all coming back to this moment in cinema.”

Florence Welch

Tavi Gevinson actor

“I love Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Such a good weird movie.”

Tavi Gevinson

Hannah Einbinder actor

“Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is, like, really a nightmare. It’s really scary and disorienting and surreal and freaky in a way that is so Eastern European. Watching this movie made me reflect on my experience of being a young girl and being sexualized externally before I in any way identified with my own sexuality... Visually unbelievably dazzling. And I’m so happy to have it.”

Hannah Einbinder