{"id":38198,"date":"2019-06-21T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=38198"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:40:37","slug":"wealth-health-and-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/wealth-health-and-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealth, health and tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Juraj Jakubisko] made a film about present times in the course of a couple of months, directly in the boiling point of post-revolution re-arrangements of Czecho-Slovakia. He made a film about times of anarchy which we go through on our journey from totalitarianism to democracy, a film about \u201dwealth which we used to reject and now we worship, about two nations in one state<\/em>\u201d, as director has said. Money and national awareness have become central themes in the lives of contemporary men.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film It’s Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill<\/em> concludes his \u201dtrilogy about freedom and happiness\u201c. If in its first and second instalments (Birdies, Orphans and Fools<\/em>, 1969 and Sitting on a Branch I Am Fine<\/em>, 1989) the main protagonists were two men and a woman, this time it\u2019s vice versa. \u201dTimes have changed, the same goes for values<\/em>\u201c Jakubisko says. \u201dIn these predatory times, when intolerance and a power struggle are at the forefront, it is not tough men who could be heroes, it is women. Sensitive, impulsive and much more vulnerable \u2013 but only at first sight.<\/em>\u201d Men turn coats, theirs and those of times. Women have to constantly orientate themselves and make themselves home in altered maps of their microcosms. The world is reflected in their fate. Jakubisko follows women’s fate on the backdrop of times and times on the backdrop of women’s fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wouldn’t be Jakubisko, if he wasn’t developing his favourite motifs of various premonitions, prophecies and visions, mostly when, in connection with post-revolution boom of mysticism, they take on a new dimension. It is via this film that Margit, a fortune teller with telepathic abilities, enters a world inhabited by peculiar old men gifted with special abilities. Only a liberated poetic mind can conjure up a situation where Margit, using her premonition, saves the main female protagonists from a fatal crash with furiously overtaking trucks, only to be instantly robbed of the car she is sitting in, guarding a precious cargo. [Film’s protagonists] Nona and Ester find her sleeping on a roundabout. She had a dream in which two angels lifted her and she flew… Jakubisko enhances the real world with mysterious manifestations of the human soul. However, they remain ethereally free and shifting in their space of magical fantasy. Jakubisko laughs at everything that would like to define or canonize them. A poetic soul binds them together with reality through creation of fantastic images, toying with their very existence. They are part of Jakubisko’s \u201dgame of foolishness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like a magician who pulls a rabbit out of his hat, with Jakubisko, a paper bird flies out of a can, a vegetation of inflatable plants starts growing rapidly \u2013 just for the sake of pure amazement. Reality overlaps with fantasy and Jakubisko provides a glimpse of the gene that is the rudiment of the tissue and the general principle found in particular one. In each of his works, Jakubisko weaves a fantasy net of various intensity. A good many critics have let themselves be fascinated by the extent of Jakubisko’s fantastic creations to the extent that they always wonder when reminded by Jakubisko of his completely different side \u2013 his interest in reality and present and their naturalistic intensity. But it is harsh reality which Jakubisko melts in its magmatic and ethereal imagery \u2013 and in this film, more than ever, he interconnects them with balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criticism often curses the quality of his work with its distance from the depicted era or event. However, Jakubisko’s film is a proof of what irreplaceable quality art can take when it doesn’t observe reality from a distance, but it looks around, when it doesn’t describe a battle, but is a part of it. Jakubisko projects the continuity of his thoughts, not their results. In times of anarchy, human world shows its face. It becomes apparent who is who, the most private becomes public, public becomes private \u2013 a broken-up unity of human existence, although temporarily, gets back together, and the life of that moment turns to be somehow \u201dtotal\u201c. Human attitude in these times and towards these times holds a significant value for Jakubisko. In times of anarchy, human nature and obvious mechanical relations recreate human society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extract from the text written by Ludmila Koreck\u00e1 published in magazine <\/em>Film a doba, vol. 39, no. 2\/1993.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JURAJ JAKUBISKO (1938)<\/strong>
Director’s filmography (selection):
upcoming \u2013 Perinbaba 2<\/em>
2008 \u2013 Bathory<\/em>
2004 \u2013 Post Coitum<\/em>
1997 \u2013 An Ambiguous Report about the End of the World<\/em>
1992 \u2013 It’s Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill<\/em>
1989 \u2013 Sitting on a Branch I Am Fine<\/em>
1987 \u2013 Freckled Max and the Ghosts<\/em>
1985 \u2013 Lady Winter<\/em>
1983 \u2013 The Millennial Bee<\/em>
1981 \u2013 Infidelity in a Slovak Way<\/em>
1979 \u2013 Build a House, Plant a Tree<\/em>
1970 (1990) \u2013 See You in Hell, My Friends<\/em>
1969 \u2013 Birdies, Orphans and Fools<\/em>
1968 \u2013 Deserters and Pilgrims<\/em>
1967 \u2013 The Prime of Life<\/em> (a.k.a. The Years of Christ<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill
<\/em><\/strong>Liberated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screenings:
July 4 | 13:00 | Karlovy Vary Municipal Theatre
July 6 | 9:30 | Small Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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