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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

  • 82% of users liked it
    (1,951 ratings)

Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) is the young teenage girl who lives with her grandmother. She feels the first stirring of sexual awareness when a carnival parade comes to town. Eagle (Petr Kopriva) is the young man who presents her with a pair of magic earrings. Her fantasy adventures begin when she… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Vítezslav Nezval, Jaromil Jires
Genres
Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1970 Wide
Criterion Collection

Critic Reviews

  • Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com

    A sensuous, often suspenseful fable saturated with shades of Sigmund Freud, Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade, the horror comes in the form of actual, traditional fanged vampires who can shape-shift and cause all kinds of deadly mischief.

  • Anton Bitel, Film4

    This confounding, carnivalesque coming-of-age fantasy is as beguiling as it is beautiful, as subversive as it is strange.

  • Leo Goldsmith, Not Coming to a Theater Near You

    With its shifting moods and its fairy tale symbolism of youth and age, sexuality and death, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is part opaque folk tale and part Gothic horror.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    Well that was... interesting. I'm still not sure what to make of this movie. Valerie goes through a series of insanity from one day to the next. There are carnivals, weddings, her gradmother's death, her vampire cousin, her weird brother, and that priest/monster/devil… More

  • Greg S


    On the day she gets her period, a young girl's life turns into a strange dream of lusty priests and vampire infestations. This surreal fairy tale exploring juvenile fears of predatory adults and the scary world of sex was a late bloomer in the Czech New Wave, but stands as one of… More

  • Robert C


    While fascinating in the visual sense, the film as a whole was a bit too convoluted even for my tastes. While I'm perfectly capable of enjoying a film as simply a beautifully bizarre spectacle...this one was JUST whimsical enough that I longed for a bit more cohesion in the… More

  • vieras e


    The last five or so minutes were brilliant. Otherwise this film was far too bizarre, even for me.

  • Dimitris S


    There is no place like home Valerie..... The assassination of a blossoming violet.Also known as the savage youth and how to embrace your dreams evading hell.

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