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ARTIST
FISER, LUBOS
TITLE
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (Sleeve B)
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FINDERS KEEPERS
CATALOG #
FKR 009XB-LP
FKR 009XB-LP
GENRE
SOUNDTRACK
RELEASE DATE
8/17/2018
New 2018 edition. Second of two sleeve designs based on the original theatrical posters. 2018 marks ten years since Finders Keepers Records first liberated
Lubos Fiser
's immaculate soundtrack music for
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
("Valerie A Týden Divu") from the vaults of the Barrandov Studio in Prague. As the inaugural release of an ongoing discography of previously unreleased scores from the hugely creative "Film Miracle" that occurred during and after the Czech New Wave (CNW), this score will always retain a special place in the heart of the label. Having grown in status from an obscure and misunderstood socialist-era art house oddity, via the hands of risqué foreign fluff merchants, to finally find its rightful audience as a bona fide surrealist cinematic masterpiece of world class standards, this 1970 film adaptation of
Vítezslav Nezval
's 1935 avant-garde novella -- a film that literally cross-pollinated
Max Ernst
's
A Week Of Kindness
(1934) and
Lewis Carol
's
Alice In Wonderland
(1865) -- has garnered widespread critical acclaim. Inspiring ongoing generations of visual artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers,
Valerie
continues to impregnate their daily artistic referential fabric. Commonly considered to be the swansong of the CNW, following a huge paranoia-fueled government film cull in 1969, owing to the fact it is last government approved feature film of the post-Prague Spring era to combine the efforts of controversial filmmakers from the FAMU (Filmová A Televizní Fakulta Akademie Múzických Umení) film school,
Valerie
would also be the first of an exciting and essential new fertile strain of Czech made cinema fantastic. Successfully condensing the final drops of CNW lifeblood through a series of presumed apolitical scary/fairy tales, directors like
Jaromil Jires
and
Juraj Herz
used surrealism, traditionalism, and fantasy to rejuvenate the creative energy of apathetic filmmakers evading government scrutiny via creatively coded artistic allegories. By strategically choosing to adapt a pre-war surrealist melodrama written by a communist convert author called Vítezslav Nezval and based in a non-specific traditional era, the previously censored filmmaker Jaromil Jires was able to craft what many consider his finest filmic hour and what would later become his most universally received achievement. Jires managed to unintentionally establish a new genre format that was both stylistically and sonically tuned to the trends of the impending decade. Remastered from the original studio tapes with updated liner notes. This new edition is available in two sleeve designs, both based on the original theatrical posters.
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