Who may be bothered by an odd gardener? Inconspicuous, silent, hardworking, dwelling in response to the common annual cycle of nature in the course of his crops someplace in semi-solitude?
Effectively… for instance, to a brand new neighbor who purchased an adjoining fort and desires to reconstruct it, within the phrases of a well-loved actual property agent, “offered that the encompassing space of the fort will even endure vigorous improvement”. The gardener doesn’t reply to the obscure provide / risk, and so issues start to occur. It begins with a barrier on the driveway, manned by a badass boy from the safety company, stopping the gardener’s prospects from driving to choose up the products. Then comes an overturned multicar and a “combed” bicycle. What can be subsequent?
Screenwriter, director, actor and theater artist Jiří Havelka is creating in a stunning path. He entered the world of movie as an writer 5 years in the past with a conversational comedy Homeowners, primarily based on his personal play, which was primarily based on actual occasions. The movie, inflated by brilliantly eavesdropped dialogues, was a report of sky-high absurdities from the neighborhood of residence house owners. And in Gardener’s yr it’s really about housing, in a broader sense a couple of dignified life in a single’s personal approach. Right here, too, there are outwardly good individuals in long-fingered fits who appear to imply effectively to us. But when in Homeowners Havelka narrated by means of dialogues and comedic timing, this time he expresses himself by means of (virtually) wordless appearing, cyclical construction and repetitions. The titular gardener is portrayed by Oldřich Kaiser in an admirably centered efficiency solely with facial expressions, which all the opposite characters contact on – Štěpán Kozub’s safety guard, the dealer performed by Michal Isteník, the mayor (Alena Mihulová), the police and eventually the hero’s girlfriend, who’s performed by Kaiser’s actual life accomplice Dáša Vokatá .
Havelka mirrored on the true occasions this time too, solely they weren’t about a purchase order, however about restitution. The second supply of inspiration was a captivating assortment of feuilletons Yr of the Gardener by which Karel Čapek describes the thrill and sorrows of the titular occupation in delightfully tongue-in-cheek language. Each the movie and the e-book happen throughout all 4 seasons, which provides the movie an ideal dose of pure lyricism. This intentionally contrasts with the bitter injustice that the gardener has to face and which is fueled by the aptly captured incapability of the state authorities to resolve the plain injustices.
Yr of the gardener it has its world premiere as a part of the Particular Presentation part, however with its cruelly absurd ambiance it will simply match into the vary of photographs related to the work of Franz Kafka…
Path: Jiří Havelka
CR 2024
