
Petr is 17 years old and starts work as a security worker against shoplifting in a busy self-service shop. His boss gives him pretty basic instructions, and Petr is pretty unsuccessful at work. He doesn't do much better at the dance hall either, and at home his bombastic father lectures him about how useless he is.... (Full plot summary below)
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Petr is 17 years old and starts work as a security worker against shoplifting in a busy self-service shop. His boss gives him pretty basic instructions, and Petr is pretty unsuccessful at work. He doesn't do much better at the dance hall either, and at home his bombastic father lectures him about how useless he is.
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| User ReviewMax NTodo lo pedante e intrascendente de la hiperinflada Nueva Ola Francesa, pasado por un filtro. Este grupo de jovenes checos supo extraer los buenos elementos de dicho estilo y convertirlo en cine de alta calidad. Nunca se habia visto una fabula que retratara con tanta frescura a la adolescencia. Un excelente trabajo de actores, sencillo como pocos, pero contenedor de un sin fin de emociones... divierte hasta la carcajada y emociona hasta la lagrima. Para atesorarla por siempre. Una joya. |
| User ReviewSusan Gceska uzasna klasika! AHOOOOJ, hoj... AHOOOOJ, hoj... "slysis ten rozdil?" super! |
| User ReviewEdgar CCome aboard Forman's extremely funny comedy and learn to correctly pronunciate "hello" in Czech: AHOJ AHOOOOJJJ AHHOOOOOOOOJJJJJJ *mumbles Ahoj* AHHHOOOOOOOOOOJJJJJJJ!!!! ahoj With his first official fully fictional feature length movie, Milos Forman just made what is unquestionably one of the funniest films of the entire Czech New Wave. Forman consolidated his comedic trademark vision with Cerny Petr, where the humor started to emanate in the most subtle of ways, but always very explicitly, mostly consisting in marital disagreements, domestic settings, verbal puns and a parentally misguided youth reminiscent of Truffaut's Nouvelle Vague origins in 1959. This time, the performances look more experienced and less hesitant, the screenwriting seems more carefully planned, the pacing is more adequate and the gags are timed perfectly, from the visual to the intrinsic and the verbal ones. At the core, this can be seen as a humorous analysis of youth in a changing society, simultaneous to the change of the Czechoslovak nation during the 60s and the change of cinema as well. Beyond that, it is much more. To begin with, it was the necessary stepping stone for the director's vision to be perfected, and for his collaboration with Ivan Passer (director of Intimate Lighting [1965]) to be consolidated. Looking at Passer's 1965 debut, it is easy to spot his visual and mood influences of humor in Cerny Petr. After writing Konkurs (1964), he would then proceed to help with the screenplay of Forman's two subsequent masterpieces, Loves of a Blonde (1965) and Firemen's Ball (1967). Secondly, this film is the first notorious effort by Forman to technically adopt the eccentricities of the international New Wave movement, with more French influence than anything else. With improvised dialogues, jumpy cuts, a hand-held camera, a couple of art references, and in-door evolvement of situations, this film proved to be an important step forwards in the director's vision and capacity to envision comedic material to be adapted to film. Fully recommended but with full attention from the audience to capture as much of the subtle humor as possible, Cerny Petr is a multi-faceted bold piece of comedy with most of its goals successfully accomplished for the sake of cinema evolution and comedic experimentation. 80/100 |
| User ReviewJens Twhen a genious makes his first film, he is still searching for the right path. and yet, the film is quite amazing. and funny: 'why are you looking at the grass?' 'green calms the eyes' 'is that why cows are so calm? sorry, didn't mean it that way...' ;) |
| User ReviewPiotr SForman's done a great job with this film based on choices and delivers some very real and relatable situations through true comedy. |
| User ReviewKate TI think this might be the world's first slacker film, predating all the '90s indie flicks born of Richard Linklater's SLACKER. It's also really good. |
| User ReviewAmanda CSlow and podding at times, Black Peter suffers from too little substance. There is not enough plot or character insight to make this a great film. It does however contain some nice moments, and some interesting formal work which are enough to make this film worth a look. |
| User ReviewPrivate UA simple story where the camera shows you exactly the main character's point of view. |