“Plum bacchanalia, roasting frgals and acorns in the ears instead of plugs. So the basis for an earthy Moravian comedy is good, but the fairy tale The Greatest Gift is unbearably boring,” claims film critic Mojmír Sedláček about the new Czech film.
Watch the video review of the movie fairy tale The Greatest Gift. | Video: Mojmír Sedláček, Blahoslav Baťa
According to Sedláček, the directors Daria Hrubá and Marta Santovjáková Gerlíková do not yet have much experience, and their inexperience shows itself in the same way as the creators of other failed fairy tales: It is easy to give in to the impression that it is enough to dress well-known actors in funny costumes, to say that love overcomes everything , and it is done. But it doesn’t really work that way.
“All the time we don’t actually know how powerful the individual characters are, or rather it’s worth noting that the pagan gods often do almost nothing here. Moreover, they are dressed in really cheap and ridiculous-looking costumes. So we can’t talk about fatalism or humor,” he thinks about the fairy tale Sedláček.
Several songs by David Stypka will also be heard during the hour and a half long, but according to the critic very stretched footage, but apart from the tribute to the musician who died last year, there is hardly a single reason why this film should have been made. “In addition, the fairy tale desperately lacks a definite main character whom we could root for, so we can only wonder what the creators were actually trying to say with this work,” adds Mojmír Sedláček.
