Réalisation:
Jan PrušinovskýPhotographie:
Petr KoblovskýActeurs·trices:
Martin Hofmann, Erika Stárková, Filip František Červenka, Michal Isteník, Zdeněk Godla, Cyril Drozda, Vladimír Škultéty, Jitka Čvančarová (plus)Épisodes(8)
Résumés(1)
The city, where the white fear the dark, the dumb fear the clever ones, Czechs fear Germans, men fear women, heterosexuals fear transsexuals and the local guys fear the ones from Litvínov. And everybody fears loneliness. (Serial Killer)
Critiques (6)
Alors que la moitié de la planète suit aujourd’hui la remise politiquement correcte des Oscars, toute la Tchéquie suit le dernier épisode de MOST!, la série fraîche qui reflète le caractère des Tchèques avec humour et pertinence. Et elle extrait jusqu’à la dernière goutte cet humour politiquement incorrect à l’état brut qui manque tant de nos jours. Je n’irais pas jusqu’à la qualifier de tsunami dans le cinéma tchèque, mais suis content qu’elle ait tant de succès ; ça fait plaisir de voir de temps en temps une œuvre qui tape en plein dans le mille grâce à la force de ses créateurs.
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The entire country went crazy about the TV show MOST! and it makes me think that it’s actually not a bad idea for shows and movies to be made to look more natural so that we can imagine where they may actually be taking place. On top of that, the city of Most was lucky that nobody thought much of it before the first episode aired. And now the city gets probably mentioned in any discussion among friends who are planning to go on a trip and haven’t decided where to go yet. Most! is simply a blast and in my opinion it is somehow the climax of the best stuff that the creative duo of Kolečko + Prušinovský could have put together. I was a bit worried about the serious part of the TV show because in the past I have seen cases where too much seriousness didn’t work out too well for Kolečko as a screenwriter. But Prušinovský is such a gooddirector that he can shoot the serious parts with the kind of lightness that I exactly need. In a similar vein, Mr. Menzl always managed to do that with the stories of Bohumil Hrabal. A thing of beauty! I am glad that we have creative artists like that in our country and I am glad that the city of Most attained a status of uniqueness. Apart from the creators, I would like to thank the actors as well – they provided me with one of the best film experiences of this year. It was a pleasure to watch the show every Monday. Under regular circumstances, Monday pretty much sucks as a day, but this time, those eight Monday were actually quite nice. Thanks!
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South Africans have Soweto, Americans have Detroit, and Czechs have Most. From this perspective, the Czechs are noticeably better off. Prušinovský came up with a collection of caricatured characters from the outskirts of Czech society and he succeeded in impressing me. Not that I don't have any reservations, as the second episode was a clear decline in quality, but overall the series maintains its style and manages to navigate between nonconformist edginess with subtly subversive elements and educational messages about the necessity of getting along within the local community, no matter who we are. It cleverly plays with prejudice and stereotypes, and for the most part, it is fresh and rarely awkward. Overall impression: 80%.
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I believe that MOST! has to be at least a little endearing to anyone with a bit of humanity and goodness. I love it, regardless of all its mistakes (it grinds a lot here and there, and then it doesn’t). It has a full palette of emotions and moods. But what’s most telling about the series after all is where the harshest criticisms come from. 1) From the model SPD voter, i.e. the racist and homo/trasnphobic human garbage (something like Čvančarová’s character). 2) From the not-so-smart SWJs that take themselves too seriously, who, in all their seriousness and combativeness, aren’t able to get a joke. 3) From the adherents of that formal morality so popular in Czechia, who pleadingly demand that vulgarisms should not be used, but lack the capacity to know what is really moral and why, and fail to understand that words aren’t moral or immoral on in themselves; it’s actions or thought that are. MOST! has everything that annoys these groups, and in a generous measure. I haven’t watched the previous series by Prušinovský & Kolečko, but I will sure do. Because this… I don’t want to throw superlatives too generously in my initial enthusiasm, so I won’t claim it’s the best that’s happened in this country since the revolution. But it’s a passion. Don't stop believin'!
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If there was a series that I never wanted to watch from the start, it was the story from my hometown. Even before I registered its existence, it had settled in almost every Czech living room, on the street on Tuesday morning there were loud reports from yesterday's episode, and when someone dared to say that they were not following Ludana and co. yet, the response was a bewildered and incomprehensible look. At the moment when I got the impression that I would probably be the last person who had not yet visited Severka, I gathered up my courage - and visited. And as the surprisingly aggressive start succeeds with a salvo of more or less funny situations (and the second part of that enthusiasm is again hindered by the relentless effort to make the main character unbearable idiot), I had to be curious whether the relatively incoherent spectacle could be maneuvered out of. Usually, Prushinovsky's skillful hand is blocked by constant targeting of genuine social issues, in which strong little stories are easily found, but genre deviations often do not work due to necessary exaggeration. Here it is not so and most importantly, it is thanks to the actors. Without a perfectly fitting cast, leaps into romance, existentialism, and sporadically even into action could not work. But both the most celebrated Hofmann, the fateful discovery Stárková, and my personal favorite Michal Isteník play both first-planned grimaces and surprisingly sustainable glosses, which could only become popular and finally even show the most serious side. Behind the omnipresent "Dycky Most" or the vulgarity in every more heated dialogue, there is a surprisingly accurate message, which in many points corresponds to my view of the world, much to my shock. In combination with the seriousness of the last episodes, I gladly forgive the initial looseness and incoherence, and when at the very end the first tones of one of the favorite songs of my life sound, everything falls into place. For a few seconds, I even considered the highest rating, from which only the unpleasant sweatiness of Czech efforts, which still cannot get rid of even in first-class pieces, prevents me. But still, "Most!" belongs to this group and even though a month ago I would not have believed that I would ever write this, it rightfully deserves cult status.
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