Brutální vedro

I was putting a lot of hope into this one when it won a special award in Karlovy Vary, on the other hand, doubts prevailed after the audience feedback, and when I heard from known creators of the film in the summer cinema the sentence: "Get ready, it's really bizarre," I probably already suspected that it might not even be worth it for me. The problem was mainly that you keep waiting for something, watching those extremely weird, meaningless scenes with hope that you'll extract some message from it, and still, there's nothing and nothing, and various unrelated random scenes keep appearing, and besides, for me as a person from Pardubice, it was hard to stomach that the main character gradually appears on the streets of Pardubice, which are maybe completely on the other side of the city or go somewhere completely different than where he actually went, but that's probably just my unjustified Pardubice comment. Nevertheless, the actors seemed quite good to me, the atmosphere was quite good, but I imagined that the heat would be portrayed there even more desperately and it would be more visual, almost piercing through the screen to the viewer. The mask on the character's face after being beaten also kinda ruined the impression for me, it looked like Quasimodo from a cheap version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I kept trying to find that deeper message in it and I'm not sure if it was there at all. The trailer also mystified us a bit. (16.09.2023)