Green Corn

Somewhere between the meltdown and the new wave, nothing happened in Czech cinema at all. There was always an attempt to do something, but that something (even when it was by Krška) was not as fired up as earlier films, but it also offered nothing to keep one occupied on an intellectual level. So it just was. This timelessness, by the way, brought the debut of Vít Olmer, who dazzled for the next twenty years as the Czech James Dean but is now remembered only as an angry director of sci-fi stories from our present. (2015-01-03)