PARADISE presents DAISIES

THIS SEPTEMBER … You know that we are living in a material world, so let’s take a tour with the target demographic! The Paradise Presents: MATERIAL GIRLS- a cinematic exploration of consumerism through a feminine lens. Join us for nine glossy pictures, with distinctive forms of pop sensibilities, that satirize and comment on the world in which we live.

UPS- A DAISY ... DOWNS-A-DAISY ... TURNED-ONS-A-DAISY. We are delighted to present a purely delightful satire/protest of materialism courtesy of the Czech New Wave. It's Věra Chytilová's joyously radical DAISIES.

If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over? Matching her anarchic message with an equally radical aesthetic, director Věra Chytilová, with the close collaboration of cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera, unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts, and surreal costumes designed by Ester Krumbachová, who also cowrote the script. The result is Daisies, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, an exuberant call to rebellion aimed squarely at those who uphold authoritarian oppression in any form.

(Courtesy of Janus Films)

Monday, September 16th, 6 PM/5:30 PM Doors

General Admission $12.50 | Student/Senior (with valid ID) $10.00 + HST/eventbrite fees

Door tickets are available for purchase on the day of screening. Refunds can be requested up to 24 hours before the screening. All refunds must be requested and processed through eventbrite.

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