Réalisation:
Viktor TaušPhotographie:
Milan ChadimaMusique:
Walter KraftActeurs·trices:
Jan Antonín Duchoslav, Michal Suchánek, Eva Jeníčková, Václav Kopta, Veronika Freimanová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Juliana Johanidesová (plus)Résumés(1)
What will you do when your platonic love of 25 years becomes your true love? Maybe everything and maybe nothing. Maybe you’ll find that what you didn’t manage in 25 years, you’ll never manage... The unfulfilled dreams from teenage years, the dreams had by each of our movie’s protagonists and each of us. An unexpected meeting of Professor Karda, Viki Cabadaj and Marika brings the “old gang of daffodils and tough guys” together again at the mountain resort in Pec pod Sněžkou and sets the stage for new, funny stories. The main actors are not the same but they have their offspring. Jana Cabadajová and Petr Mácha. They both end up in Pec for different reasons and, along with a trio of young boys whose greatest skill is picking up women, they create the young generation’s modern-day look at their parents’ world. Between the so called golden kids and their parents, i.e., the daffodils and tough guys, the atmosphere is naturally thick and sparks fly, creating room for a windstorm of humorous situations. Through a host of funny situations, through a host of life experiences, we reach the conclusion: What we didn’t manage to do in 25 years, we won’t do now. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (8)
The most common opinion I've encountered is that I might like this film precisely because I wasn't particularly charmed by the "first" film. Yet it doesn't work either way. I could hardly find a few minutes where I wasn't shaking my head in disapproval. The work with the soft pastel colors that surrounded mainly the skiing Marika was quite successful, but that's about it - if you don't count the simple but nice idea of the poster. On the other hand, I was facepalming significantly when the film was recalling the careers of "Jeníčková" and "Suchánek" and found it downright awkward how little the script managed to cope with their fates. And the side storyline about today's youth? It is misguided…
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Les personnages du premier film désespèrent de leur misérable vie 25 ans après. La plaisanterie a été remplacée par une triste dépression. Cela vaut la peine d'être vu seulement si vous vous intéressez à quoi ressemblent ces acteurs après tant d'années. À vos risques et périls.
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The old gang is back in the mountains, and even though they have a few wrinkles and some extra weight, some things just don't change. And some things change a lot. The return to the heroes of the Czech comedy classic plays more on a nostalgic note than a comedic one, but unfortunately it doesn't really work. If it weren't for some good acting, decent cinematography and music, it would have been a dud. This way, after twenty-five years, The Great Thaw is just a mediocre film whose closing credits will have you wondering why it was made in the first place.
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Unbalanced. If the creators hadn’t been afraid of cutting out all those dumb age-old wisecracks, completely ignoring the three dames and letting the aspects that work shine through, this could have been much better. It had the material for it. I expected improvisation, I got it. But I didn’t expect that the creators were going to have something to say. And they certainly do. It doesn’t work as a comedy even for a second, but as one big melancholic nostalgic sigh, it plays its role surprisingly well.
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The courage to try to continue at the same cottage a quarter of a century later still surprises me. And I'm not even talking about daring to present viewers craving for another comedy with a hundred-minute reminiscence of something long gone. But some things don't change – Cabadaj comes to the forefront, Mácha is the most appreciated comedic character, and Převrátil serves as the audience surrogate. And yes, the supporting female cast is once again incredibly annoying. The nostalgia and melancholy, however, surprisingly feel good. I saw myself in the main characters, I rooted for some of them to turn their lives around in the right direction, and even though I sometimes felt that the theatrics were unnecessary, I was still interested in how Radek John and Ivo Pelant wanted to bring this script to a conclusion. That may ultimately be the stumbling block. Great gestures, big words, and marginally intensified serious situations don't really suit Snowdrops and Aces. Still, a huge surprise by the standards of Czech film.
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I cannot compare it to the original comedy model from the 80s because I have avoided it so far, but I still have to say that this film is missing a lot of things. It is a dull and average affair on all sides. The actors and the screenplay did not appeal to me. Overall impression: 45%.
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I confess that I don't have that strong a connection to the first film, which is a classic. I never saw it as a kid, but I have to admit that in my twenties when I first saw it, it got me. However, the second film was a disappointment for me, as the nostalgia that mainly carried over from seeing the first film didn't work for me. Yes, it served its purpose. But nobody will remember this film like they do the original Snowdrops and Aces.
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The sequel to the cult Czech film Snowdrops and Aces didn't turn out as badly as the reviews here might suggest. Watching the fates of the aging high school students, I felt a strange nostalgia that I quite enjoyed in combination with the good mood-setting music. However, my impression was a bit spoiled by the sometimes rather immature acting of Jan Antonín Duchoslav, and unfortunately, Eva Jeníčková wasn’t very good either. I could have also done without the lines from the original film, as here they feel a bit inappropriate given the age of the main characters. (55%)
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