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Spoiler-free premise
Two young women decide the world is spoiled and answer it with a gleeful campaign of disruption.
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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.
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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
Good for
Film Club
Descriptive guidance derived from rating, genre, runtime, mood, and GCML scores.
Institutional reference ranks
Sight & Sound28IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores
Greatness8.8
Engagement8.3
Ease7.8
Czech · Not Rated Narrative Feature Mood: Funny & Bittersweet
