Master Rank #496

Daisies

1966

GCML Total8.4040% Greatness · 40% Engagement · 20% Ease

Directed by Věra Chytilová

CastJitka Cerhová · Ivana Karbanová

CzechoslovakiaCzechDrama / Comedy74 minNot Rated
Sight & SoundNarrative FeatureModerate pace
Original poster artwork · Great Cinema Master List

Spoiler-free premise

Two young women decide the world is spoiled and answer it with a gleeful campaign of disruption.

Read expanded premiseLonger, still spoiler-free

Two young women, both called Marie, decide that because the world is spoiled they will become spoiled too. They manipulate older men, consume extravagant meals, disrupt public spaces, cut images apart, and turn destruction into a gleeful aesthetic program.

Why it belongs

In Daisies, Chytilová makes rebellion formally contagious through collage, color shifts, jump cuts, food, scissors, and two women refusing useful behavior.

Read expanded why it belongsThe fuller editorial case

Tinted film, stop motion, magazine cutouts, banquet tables, telephone games, dismembered images, and rhythmic editing make sabotage the movie's grammar—Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová perform appetite without apology.

Major award wins

No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.

Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20

Continue the conversation

Double Feature