Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Graveyard Poet

This fairy tale, gothic, hallucinatory, lyrical, poetic, surreal ode to an adolescent girl's menstruation and sexuality comes closer than any other film to crystallizing the dreams and nightmares of childhood consciousness.

Scorpio Velvet

Beautiful, strange, frightening, erotic, colorfully creative, and just perfect - like a grownup fairy tale told by ether Carroll or Stoker. This isn't just a horror/fantasy, it's a magical world you may want to live in (despite the horror it has). 5/5

Harry Rossi

The feelings and tone of this movie are freeing! Great surreal imagery (and just great imagery in general) used to explore a young woman's sexuality! I loved the subject matter and the execution was just lovely. The ending felt life affirming. I'm sure some of the metaphors are deeply lost on me, which I will is why I definitely need to re-watch this film sometime in the near future. Good stuff!

lazycalm

Exploring the transformation of teenage puberty to maturity. Loaded with bacchanalia and symbolism of sexual awakening. The soundtrack are great and Jaroslava Schallerová as Valerie looks very naive and tempting at the same time :D. Coming-of-age movie never felt this trippy…

This is Jake Kath

Graceful surrealism. My mom told me about this movie around the age of 12 and I wished I saw it then! The surreal is most appropriate when you are entering teenage hood. Especially when the movie deals with young sexual awakening. Something about this reminded me of Hausu. Maybe its because of how beautiful it is! Damn good movie!

J. O.

"Film miracle" is often used to describe the Czech New Wave of filmmaking, and this is most accurate for this film as it is entirely a series of miraculous visuals. A mysteriously beautiful style and the gorgeous Jaroslava Shallerová flood every scene, but in the end the film is still a little slow. It becomes a little flat and repetitive, but its heart is definitely in the right place.

Christopher R. Smith

A surrealist work that lyrically overcomes its low budget with imagery and atmosphere that beats out countless others to be an authentic, intriguing cinematic interpretation of a dream state. Definitely not for all tastes, but for those with a taste for experimental and surrealist cinema, this is a fascinating piece of work.

Matt Burgess

Teenage girl gets her period for the first time and loses herself in strange sexual fantasies involving vampires, lecherous priests, her weird incestuous family and her own death. Just perfect in every way, one of my favourite films ever, a stunningly beautiful erotic fairytale.