Daria

No, you asshole! I apologize, but that was the mildest possible reaction to what I saw. I don't know if I will see a worse Czech movie this year. I hope not. From the opening dialogue between the main character (?) and his mother, I was pretty sure that I wouldn't enjoy this. And I was not mistaken. The dialogues were terrible, yet at the same time, they became the extremely entertaining element of this masterpiece. Allow me to give two examples of what, among other things, was said in the conversations. "I feel like I died and the whole world stopped caring about me." and "Doctors said that if it was just a millimeter off, it would have been game over for me." Well, yes, sure. The individual characters were developed so perfectly that I couldn't care less about them. Only one character caught my attention more than the others. It was the tough guy Taz, who was tougher than the tough guy Drsoň from Drsoňovice. Compared to Taz, sandpaper would seem like silk and Batman would flee to the shadows out of shame. I don't know if Daniel Miňovský used any psychotropic substances when writing the script, or if he is naturally like that, but this creation of his is truly incomprehensible to me. Pure shit. The director's surname will only be accepted by my brain with an English pronunciation from now on, the acting performances are not worth mentioning, so I can summarize the final impression with one word - disaster. P.S. Great commentary/content by Matty. I applaud and envy you:-)) (11.01.2022)

At first glance Daria seems like a stylish mysterious conspiracy thriller, but in reality it is just a bizarre and chaotic feature film amounting to earning a reward for nonsense, seemingly as if it were written by a random plot and dialogue generator. The film’s plot consists of a completely meaningless series of happy coincidences and is strongly marked by the fact that its creators can film an effective shot here and there, psychedelically cut an occasional flashback and underscore a scene with a sharp song, but the level of their narrative, screenwriting and dramaturgical skills ranges in negative values. As a result, the film is incredibly bad and stupid, sometimes so much that it's actually quite fun to watch (steampunk ranch!, sex with demons!!, Jiří Schmitzer in the role of a mad scientist!!!). The film includes a few goofy ideas and the pretty heroine occasionally gets nude, but unfortunately that’s where the positives end. (30.01.2020)

A bizarre Czech thriller that makes no sense, and the screenwriter must be well aware of that; otherwise he wouldn’t have washed his hands of the whole bungled story, closing with that amateur final scene with Miklasová slumbering with her left breast accidentally exposed. The acting performances are weak: Nosek is asking for a punch in the face but, since he’s working with such an awful screenplay, it probably doesn’t matter. Hart’s camerawork is professional and the lighting and the overall production design are exceptionally good for a Czech film. That said, this mess is a waste of money and talented people’s time. (11.10.2020)

If there was a game in which the players were drawing various cards describing random segments of plots, enigmatic sub-plots and hollow one-liners, with which they would try to build a supposedly coherent cinematographic story before bursting into laughter when they discover the grotesque parody that came about with the little they had at hand, the screenplay for Daria would be born while playing that game. (09.06.2020)