Directed in 1969 by Jirí Menzel, Larks on a string was immediately banned from all exploitation by the Czechoslovak censors. It was only after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 that this ban was lifted. The film’s success was not long in coming, as it won the Golden Bear at the 1990 Berlinale. This film can now be rediscovered in a restored 4K version as part of the retrospective dedicated to the Czech filmmaker, “Comedy is a weapon“, organised by the distributor Malavida.
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Our critic’s notebook: all the news of the films, our critical opinions, our moods, …
Throughout the year, we try to transmit our passion for cinema to you, through this critical notebook. You won’t find all the movies, only the ones we want to talk about!
We classify the films according to 3 levels of appreciation:
We highly recommend:
These are films that we liked a lot. They are in our eyes at least good. We find there our favorites and of course the masterpieces (see also on this subject our cult films).
We recommend:
You will find there films that we liked a little, and that we want to support despite their small defects.
We don’t recommend:
In this category, you’ll find films that didn’t interest us, or that we frankly disliked. These are our disappointments. At Mag Cinéma, we want to respect the authors, and the work done. So we try not to use this appreciation so much, we prefer in general not to make a criticism when a film appears to us without interest, or contrary to our tastes. But sometimes, we have our blows of gueule, and have a voice different from what you can read elsewhere in the press!
