Like Carrie, but with more fangs.

Great surreal imagery and a compelling, and strange, narrative with a wonderful lead. At times the dreamlike quality got a little too hard to grasp for me, but for the most part it was a fun time.

Pretty, lovely, innocent at the beginning. The lack of a sting kills the end.

A surreal fantasy exploding with beautiful imagery. The last 20 minutes are kind of weak, though.

Surreal tale, no deep thoughts, if the film was not made under communist regime, the depiction of "dark priests" could be associated with the "standard" horror imagery, but in the context of 1970, it seems as a political command, not as an act of creation. The film was characterised also as "the best soft-porn of the normalisation era".

Valerie ve onun extravagant sinema stilini sevmiyorum ama bu film sapik papazin dansi icin bile izlenir.

Like a Jodorowsky movie but actually good? Beautiful visuals and eerie, captivating mood although it works much better as a stream-of-consciousness parade of dreamlike imagery than as whatever narrative it attempts to cohere into. I can definitely see it's influence on the band Broadcast...

Surface story is of a young girl, who is having her first period, her sexual awekening. Which is explored in her dreams, or should i say nightmares, with a little taste of incest and lesbianism. And beneath movie surface situation in Czechoslovakia at that time is explored. Communism gets its strenght from priest, constable - forms of corrupt authority. Actors, artists are the opposing, light side. Who wins? In the end of this fairytale there can't be good without bad, and light without dark.

A strange fantasy/nightmare about a young girl whose sexual awakening is being haunted by vampires, lesbians, lesbian vampires, incestuous vampires, incestuous non-vampires, and demented priests. Magic earrings are also involved. Some of the imagery is quite striking, and the music is haunting. The non-sequitur editing reminded me a great deal of Jires' Czech contemporary Vera Chytilova, who has a similar no-nonsense approach to nonsense. Fans of Jodorowsky will probably enjoy this, too.

A good example of the crazier, more experimental cinema out of Czechoslovakia of that era. Valerie is an almost plotless montage of surreal events surrounding a 13-year-old and her sexual awakening. It's an avant-garde childern's erotic romantic vampire horror fantasy. I don't know what Jires was on but the whole thing is like an alternately good and bad trip.

Teenage girl gets her period for the first time and loses herself in strange sexual fantasies involving vampires, lecherous priests, her weird incestuous family and her own death. Just perfect in every way, one of my favourite films ever, a stunningly beautiful erotic fairytale.

A fantasy style film where a girl's confusion over sexuality is pushed to the screen. There are a collection of miniature stories that almost fit together that communicate fear, love and uncertainty to varying degrees. There's some fantastic imagery that you're unlikely to forget.

eh, i like the idea of this movie, but the mediocre production values really did it in for me. everything looked so bland and theatrical that i couldn't really get into the weirdness. it was like jodorowsky without the grandeur and the daring. also the music really sucked.

The fantasy of a girl around the time of her first period. Odd

Surreal and lovely, and charged with sexuality. It's one of those films that's packed to the brim with symbolism (mostly sexual, natch) that you can analyse to death, and yet it's also a great deal of fun to watch. Valerie herself is a delight, I love when she's pulling faces at the witch hunters.