Former classmates meet in the villa of one of them to drink and remember. The mood is disturbed by a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman and the news that their friend called Prasopes has died. The friends then go by bus to the funeral, and in the meantime various ancient traumas float to the surface.
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Jiří Langmajer and Marek Taclík
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The group consists of a sad mystic, an unsuccessful homosexual singer without talent, an obese mess with modest success with women, a frustrated old couple and a simple single 50-year-old “stranda”. The party doesn’t offer completely intellectual humor, but more importantly, it usually works. The whole film has a brisk pace, Suchánek has earthy dialogues nicely pointed out, he throws up a bizarre situation deftly. This is, of course, a great exaggeration, every detail of the scenario may not be 100% realistic.
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Some characters are intentionally blunt, others more thoughtful. And for the latter, we can see them declining their demands on life for decades after graduation and longing for at least a little bit of happiness when they missed the big one.
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Tatiana Vilhelmová and Marián Čekovský
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There are no bad actors at the Party. The role of Karel Roden (a depressed gentleman who enters the sect) is not so grateful, because he generates less humor in this story. The character of Nela Boudová (the type “a good girl, but completely stupid”) shines a little more, impressing over someone and over herself.
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Marek Taclík is perfect in the role of a cynical aging pig, he perversely announces and faces irresistibly. An adorablely incorrect character (albeit without taste, but with remnants of common sense) persuades a former classmate to have sex or at least to promise sex in the future. “You gave me hope,” he praises his friend, who didn’t really give him anything, but he was content with little.
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Táňa Vilhelmová overcomes the pig by an inch as a desperate wife who, after 25 years of living with her Jirka (Langmajer), falls into depression. He drinks hard alcohol straight from the bottle and packs the vacuum cleaner dealer, even though the husband is standing next to him. Their subsequent weeping drunken dialogue on the bus is the culmination of the whole comedy. Touching Vilhelmová excels and the resigned Langmajer forgives her generously: “Don’t screw it up so much again …”.
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Overall rating: 70%
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