FILM - A CZECH COMEDY, 'MY SWEET LITTLE VILLAGE'. THERE'S no irony in the title of ''My Sweet Little Village,''. Jiri Menzel's bucolic comedy that opens today at the 6. Street Playhouse. The movie, which has been chosen by Czechoslovakia as its nominee for the Oscar as this year's best foreign- language feature, seems to define the problems faced by a film maker in a society where everything's perfect. Bliss can be as boring as decadence. My Sweet Little Village (Czech: Vesničko má středisková) is a 1985 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel. In 1987 it was nominated for an Academy Award for. My Sweet Little Village. Review of My Sweet Little Village. Movie Show Episode 53, 12 November 1987. AIRED ON 12 November 1987. EXPIRES ON 31 December 2030. Film. My Sweet Little Village (1985) Comedy. The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. With János Bán, Marián Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínský, Rudolf Hrusínský. Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has. The setting is a picturesque Czechoslovak village that could have been ordered from a catalogue. It comes equipped with assorted livestock and poultry, including a rooster that announces each dawn offscreen (and is, possibly, a pre- recorded sound effect), and by a bunch of eccentric characters, who laugh and eat and gossip and scowl and, on occasion, noisily disagree with each other. More or less at the center of the film, and probably the owner of the title's possessive pronoun, is a middle- aged medical doctor who prefers to prescribe common sense instead of medicine and who, being a poet at heart, has an accident (minor and comic) every time he takes his car on the road. There are also a pretty young wife, her young lover and her jealous older husband; a downy- cheeked farm boy, painfully in love with the village schoolmarm; a sweet- tempered, mentally retarded young man who's tall and skinny, and his boss, a tubby, short- tempered truck driver who acts as Oliver Hardy to the slow- witted fellow's Stan Laurel. Though it means to be cheering, ''My Sweet Little Village'' is Mr. Menzel's most melancholy work. It's by far the slickest and least engaging film (at least, among those shown here) by the man who received the foreign- language Oscar for his first film, ''Closely Watched Trains'' (1. Unlike Milos Forman and Ivan Passer, his contemporaries, who chose to work in the West after the overthrow of the liberal government in 1. Mr. Menzel elected to remain in Czechoslovakia, where, in addition to being a film director and actor, he was a director of satiric theater. There's no way of knowing exactly how Mr. Menzel would have developed as a film maker had he left Czechoslovakia, or had he been able to work at home in a less restrictive atmosphere. Play trailer for My Sweet Little Village: 'My Sweet Little Village' is Oscar-winning director Jir Menzel's ironic vision of life in a farmers co-op in socialist. THERE'S no irony in the title of ''My Sweet Little Village,'' Jiri Menzel's bucolic comedy that opens today at the 68th Street Playhouse. Here is a movie in which every moment seems to be smiling at itself. 'My Sweet Little Village' tells the story of some ordinary people who live in an ordinary village. Possibly he would have made exactly the same kinds of films. Whatever the reasons, the Menzel films have become increasingly small and slight and sort of unctuous. They are ''warm,'' but it's canned heat. It's as if he were reworking the same impulses that went into ''Closely Watched Trains'' and his rueful, Renoiresque second film, ''Capricious Summer,'' though without urgency and without references to the world around him. My Sweet Little Village'' is third- rate Renoir and second- rate Forman - that is, the Milos Forman who made ''The Firemen's Ball.'' It's all sunlight and no shadows, so that even its occasionally funny gags seem flat and its moments of pathos unearned. My Sweet Little Village,'' which has been rated PG (''Parental Guidance Suggested''), contains some partial nudity and one seduction scene. DOWN HOME MY SWEET LITTLE VILLAGE, directed by Jiri Menzel; screenplay (Czechoslavakian with English subtitles) by Zdenek Sverak; cinematography by Jaromir Sofr; music by Jiri Sust; distributed by Circle Releasing Corporation. At 6. 8th Street Playhouse, at Third Avenue. Running time: 1. 00 minutes. This film is rated PG. Otik.. Janos Ban; Pavek.. Marian Labuda; Skruzny.. Rudolf Hrusinsky; Mrs. Pavek.. Milena Dvorska; Rumlena.. Ladislav Zupanic; Turek.. Petr Cepek; Mrs. Turek.. Libuse Safrankova; Kaspar.. Jan Hartl; Odvarka.. Evzen Jegorov; Kunc..
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