Daisies

Director: Vera Chytilova
(1966)

In this Czechoslovakian psychedelic feminist farce, two young teenage women named Marie decide that they will behave outrageously in response to the world. They decide to consume as much as possible, devouring expensive food paid for by rich sugar daddies and setting in motion a series of pranks that result in dangerous mayhem leading to a remorseful and violent climax that led the film to be delayed a year in its cinematic release and then banned immediately by the government. Intriguing, upsetting and very 60’s, however the feminist message and subtle nature of the images still seem to provide much to chat about forty years later.