Extase
Ohjaus:
Gustav MachatýSävellys:
Giuseppe BecceNäyttelijät:
Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz, Leopold Kramer, Karel Mácha-Kuča, Jiřina Steimarová, Jan Sviták, Eduard Šlégl, Antonín Kubový (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Eva, the daughter of a landowner, marries the well-off but many years older Emil Jerman. Upon returning from the marriage ceremony to their luxurious Prague apartment she realizes her mistake: her husband shows no interest in her as a woman. The sensitive girl suffers from his cold and bachelor's meticulousness so much that she returns to her father's estate and requests a divorce on grounds of insuperable revulsion. While bathing in the pond Eva meets Adam, a young civil engineer working close by on a highway construction site. The man is the exact opposite of her husband: though he looks robust, he acts gently. During a night-time storm Eva goes after him to his house and becomes his lover. Only now does she know the passion of love. Her husband receives a court dispatch and sets off after Eva and beseeches her, to no avail, to return. On the way back he comes across Adam and realizes who he is. Both men are staying in a village inn where Eva comes to visit Adam. The husband commits suicide in his room. His death comes between the lovers. Adam returns to his work, Eva gives birth to a child. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (3)
Due to the unpopular dialogue, I liked the Austrian version better. But that doesn't change the fact that there's a huge difference between loving Ecstasy and simply respecting it as a signboard for 1930s Czech cinema (even though it is a co-production). Being in the movie theater for the fourth time was just a symbiosis with the editing track... and Becce's music... and Zvonimír's gradation and Hedy's perfection. Hooray for work!
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Fantastic filmmaking, beautiful. If I had to pick one of Machatý's films I've seen so far that appealed to me the most, I'd pick From Saturday to Sunday, but that doesn't detract from Ecstasy's impact. It's a cinematic poem, one implied and literal metaphor after another, a meaning here, another there… Hedy Lamarr is magical and Machatý's beautiful shots, along with Becce's music, make even the simple act of waking up and opening the blinds an experience. Lastly, the finale with František Halas reciting... Yes, it's a strange finale, but it's again so well shot and gripping that it just belongs to the whole story, and anyone who wishes to can find cautionary tales as well (work shouldn't stand still = wife shouldn't go unnoticed?).
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Gustav Machatý shows that he was able to shoot human dramas and that this film is not just about the fact that there is a nude woman in it, which is still quite bold for its time. Well, let's face it, even in today's mainstream, it's not that traditional. The way the lives of individual heroes change here is brilliantly written and acted.
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