The volunteer fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things don't go as planned. Someone is stealing the prizes to the lottery and the candidates for the Miss Fire-Department beauty contest are neither willing nor particularly beautiful.... (Full plot summary below)
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The volunteer fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things don't go as planned. Someone is stealing the prizes to the lottery and the candidates for the Miss Fire-Department beauty contest are neither willing nor particularly beautiful.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is a relief to find a director who doesn't force his material, who trusts us to understand what's funny without being told. |
| Suddenly A Shot Rang OutLauren Humphries-BrooksThe film is shot through with the darkest of Czech humor-everyone, from the committee to the people to the landscape itself is the butt of a joke, representative of petty rivalries, drunken idiocy, and smug leadership that cannot lead. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA lively but gross satire by Czech writer-director Milos Forman. |
| The SpectatorPenelope HoustonAlthough the film is enormously engaging, its humour is by no means all comfortable; nor is it meant to be. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrWith Loves of a Blonde, it's the best work Forman's done, rooted in a social reality that has eluded him in his American projects. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyMilos Forman and his co-writers knew they were making a dangerous movie. |
| Old School ReviewsJohn A. Nesbit...the film strikes deeper chords and reminds us how important artistic freedom is to any lover of cinema |
| New York TimesRenata AdlerA hilarious shaggy dog story, with the pessimism of the exquisite logic that leads nowhere. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickshould be a one-joke political satire, but Forman brings a level of humanity to the allegorical meltdown that belies its sharply barbed political intentions |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonBegins as a gently mocking comedy of small-town manners, but ends as a blazing allegorical satire on the incompetence, insularity and ideological idiocy of the country's rulers. |
