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(The Double) Director: Richard Ayoade, English version / Czech subtitles, 93 min

Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker,James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life. In a playful adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel the director Richard Ayoade (Submarine) mixes humor and distinctive aesthetics with Kafkaesque atmosphere.

On Tuesday, May 6, Světozor will feature a screening of Jan Němec’s Diamonds of the Night (in Czech with English subtitles) from a new 35mm print. The screening will start at 6:30pm and Jan Němec will introduce the screening in person. Nemec’s conviction that a director must create “a personal style” and “a world independent of reality as it appears at the time” was already evident in his first feature length film. Diamonds follows the escape of two young concentration camp prisoners through the woods of Sudetenland and the ensuing pursuit of them. Moving freely between the present, dreams, and flashbacks, Nemec employs an aesthetic of Pure Cinema to depict the state of the distressed human mind. (více…)

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