How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives

I missed watching this film series in my childhood; I don’t really know why. Like this, however, I can be pleasantly surprised by an old movie. When we were watching it, my girlfriend quoted a number of catchphrases, and I think I might be able to do the same one day. This film is the kind of affair that won’t offend you even when you watch it fifty times and entertain you even on your hundredth viewing. A Czech classic, as probably everyone but me already knew. (17.12.2013)

Attempt to create a believable atmosphere of everyday mundane life without school performances and university romances. Logically, this episode ages the fastest, and thirty years after its creation, it simply drags in certain episodes. However, Štěpán is fortunately still a romantic dreamer with fewer naive desires, but everything compensates for the viewer's sacrifices with a beautiful love story at the castle. So on one hand, there's incomprehensible stagnation in one place (the cellar), and on the other hand, the strongest romance with a perfect conclusion. (26.04.2005)

To the third time's the charm and it turned out well. It is more entertaining and for me, more interesting than the second part. I liked how Štěpán has to solve interesting situations that life brings him. And he still maintains his strangely dark optimism. He actually seems depressed all the time, but still wants to live on and keeps trying. He goes after his goal, even though it is out of reach. This is likable. Matásek is unbelievably annoying. (18.04.2014)