★★☆☆☆ For those with prior knowledge of his work, Petr Václav's latest film We Are Never Alone may represent his career thus far in microcosm. It folds in the Roma subject matter of his lauded debut Marian; Karel Roden and Lenka Vlasáková star as a despairing couple, much like in Parallel Worlds; and Klaudia Dudová, the lead actress from recent hit The Way Out, appears. He brings all of this together with undeniable flare and an eye for mundane absurdity, but the result is an uneven curio as much as a cumulative masterwork.
- 7/8/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Petr Václav, the Czech filmmaker living and working in France, returns to the theme of racial discrimination already addressed in his feature debut Marian (1996). Prejudice based on race persists as a hot topic in the Czech Republic, attracting ever more attention as the government rests idle. In We Are Never Alone Václav focuses on one decent Roma family struggling to make ends meet, plunging into the Roma community in docudrama fashion. Václav's earlier effort The Way Out (2014) was an unbiased and humanistic look at wide-spread problems within the Roma community, such as youth pregnancy, lack of education, even abuse by Roma moneylenders or pimps. Despite its anchoring in an ostracized ethnic minority and strong social and moral commentary, Petr Václav touched upon somewhat...
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- 2/22/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Petr Václav, the Czech filmmaker living and working in France, returns to the theme of racial discrimination already addressed in his feature debut Marian (1996). Prejudice based on race persists as a hot topic in the Czech Republic, attracting ever more attention as the government rests idle. In We Are Never Alone Václav focuses on one decent Roma family struggling to make ends meet, plunging into the Roma community in docudrama fashion. Václav's earlier effort The Way Out (2014) was an unbiased and humanistic look at wide-spread problems within the Roma community, such as youth pregnancy, lack of education, even abuse by Roma moneylenders or pimps. Despite its anchoring in an ostracized ethnic minority and strong social and moral commentary, Petr Václav touched upon somewhat...
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- 2/22/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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