The ginger Marie looks so soft and it's like the film disturbs her softness with all the playfulness and jump cuts. But that's just what I felt, I don't know. Also, the director prefers her over the other Marie.

I'm such a sucker for these blindly, jubilantly experimental films.

Deliriously funny and wildly imaginative.

Another brilliant new wave film from Jean-Luc Godard. Thank god it's one of his pure fun films and isn't about sociopolitical concerns at all. Marie is the better-acted of the two, although her French doesn't sound at all like French. I put this down to poor direction on Godard's part.

I can totally understand why i used to hate this, but in retrospect this is easily the best of these surreal/campy/political films like Sweet Movie or The Holy Mountain, although i still can't completely love it. At best it's like a less intellectually rigorous Godard film, and i do have to admit it features some pretty remarkable experimental visual techniques. The girls start to get sort of irritating after a while though, but at least the running time is not too long.

The feminist symbolism may be a little heavy-handed for today's tastes but its energy and playfulness make this a fun watch. Some really great montages and editing effects too.

A good art film for beginners. Fairly easy to follow narrative, charming characters, and very inventive use of color. However, in the last 10 or 15 minutes, the "COMMUNISM=BAD AND OPPRESSIVE" symbolism gets really heavy-handed. Fortunately, the first hour is a great example of early psychedelic experimentalist filmmaking.

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The ginger Marie looks so soft and it's like the film disturbs her softness with all the playfulness and jump cuts. But that's just what I felt, I don't know. Also, the director prefers her over the other Marie.

If I could drop a chandelier on any two characters in the history of film, it would be these two cunts. Unfunny and cloyingly symbolic.

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It's very odd. Uses different colour schemes (one part the screen will be tinted red, the next green etc). Has a lot of imagery. It's funny at times. Very fine artsy fartsy film making. Not that entertaining, though, but not boring either.

Flawed, but highly entertaining. Chytilová employs a wild palette of photographic and editing techniques to contribute to the anything-goes tone. Very inventive use of music and sound. It's loose and unpredictable and just plain FUN. The biggest drawback is that Marie and Marie are charming at times, but they also can be highly obnoxious. Also the symbolism is occasionally far too blunt. Although the movie can be challenging, if you let yourself go along with it, it's a dazzling, wild ride.

Visually cool at times, but it really takes some patience to watch it. A great achievement of expression during a time of oppression, but not the best film.

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It was a matter of minutes before I was madly in love with this movie. Not content with just portraying a pair of air-headed, giggling, capricious, coquettish, castrating - but hot - bitches, instead Chytilova manipulates our point of view, deftly infecting the viewer themself with this crazy girlishness. We become Maries. Formally speaking it's a hyper-new-wave movie that may take its cues from Godard but then makes the perkiest Godard seem heavy by comparisson.

Cute, delightful, creative. Episodic with little narrative. Fun art.

If you're looking fur a fun surreal absurdist experience, you'll definitely find it here. I had a good time watching it, and the short length keeps it from getting grating, but I never really got into it. It had some very creative visuals and editing and the girls are charismatic. Still, I couldn't help but find the whole thing rather aimless. If there was some deeper meaning here it went over my head.

You know what's a really good experimental Czech New Wave feminist film from 1966? Daisies!

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An insane, dadaist, feminist and anarchist attack on establishment and those who oppose it. Don't miss it if you like pretty colours, images and subversive content. Miss it if you don't. Who? What? How? An egg?

Extremely entertaining and fun. The experimental editing and use of visuals make this an exceptionally trippy and wild experience that also gives a feminist punch.

There's an energy to it that just doesn't let up, with a gleeful mixing of colour filters, strange camera effects and completely plotless wanderings. Oh yeah, and the amusing penis jokes. The best thing about it is that all of its destructive experimentation feeds directly into the film's message.