Daisies

Daisies is a brightly colored surrealist comedy starring a couple of chicks in search of kicks. Inspired by the Prague Spring, the best friends undertake a quest to find a life different from their previously regimented patriarchal society. Picking up men to fleece for fancy dinners, escaping sexual obligations by hopping trains, chatting up a man on the phone while roasting and cutting sausages in their room, the two are transgressive adventurers and inveterate consumers. They must be seen to be believed: frenzied, obsessive, undaunted until a Boschian ending plunges them into the consequences of their actions. Věra Chytilová made a visionary masterpiece that has always been ahead of its time: feminist for the 1970s, punk performance for the 1980s, postapocalyptic vision for the 1990s, it deserves absolute celebration for its empowering invention of female buddies on the move.