I like Jiří Havelka.
Alice Aron
The toddler gardener is known far and large. He grows greens that individuals like to purchase from him. Sooner or later, nonetheless, the citadel in shut proximity to his flower beds and greenhouses adjustments arms, and the brand new proprietor grinds his enamel on the gardener’s plots. And issues start to occur: the creeping evil step by step materializes and takes on monstrous proportions. So that is the plot of Jiří Havelka’s new movie The Gardener’s 12 months in a Nutshell. It isn’t a cheerful movie, however Havelka nonetheless sees some humor in it. “You additionally chuckle at Samuel Beckett or Václav Havel. In any case, even with Kafka. They present an individual in a paradoxical scenario, when issues round him don’t make sense, and he displays from them. It is an absurd drama, and an absurd drama is humorous,” he muses.
Video of YEAR OF THE GARDENER (2024) – OFFICIAL TRAILER
Oldřich Kaiser shines in the primary position of the movie. His character doesn’t communicate in any respect on display screen, which makes his efficiency all of the extra admirable. Dáša Vokatá efficiently seconded him within the position of his companion, and different actors – Michal Isteník, Alena Mihulová, Petr Lněnička, Luboš Veselý, Štěpán Kozub and Tomáš Jeřábek – may also delight. The genuine greens, really grown by the filmmakers, had been definitely good for everybody. It was shot and grown on the director’s father’s farm all yr spherical. “Collectively we went via the vegetation cycles of potatoes, peppers, lettuce and tomatoes,” smiles Havelka.
A powerful reference to Karel Čapek
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Nonetheless, viewers of Zahradník’s 12 months is not going to miss the voice of Oldřich Kaiser. A fantastic storyteller right here interprets excerpts from the charming e-book of the identical title by Karel Čapek. The quotes distinction impressively with the motion on the canvas: love of the soil and the enjoyment of gardening versus vanity and evil. Nonetheless, the talked about connection didn’t determine within the director’s head from the start. “It got here after I was writing the second model of the script. I spotted that the plot of the movie needs to be divided into months, and I remembered Čapka’s e-book. It provides poetry to the movie and presents a distinction between the idealistic view of gardening and the truth of 1 gardener’s story. By the best way – an analogous case actually occurred and it was that one which impressed me to make the movie,” recollects Jiří Havelka about his first ideas in regards to the movie The Gardener’s 12 months. And once you ask him what his objectives are for releasing his movie now, he solutions: “It will be good if, amongst different issues, it led to reflection on what instruments and potentialities we’ve right here to guard the person from the monolith of evil.”
