Having long been a fan of Valerie and her Week of Wonders (1970) and more recently having marvelled at the beautiful Morgiana (1973), it's just wonderful to have some of the heretofore relatively unseen Czech New Wave classics to delve into. This thanks in no small part to Second Run DVD.
'A Blonde in Love' concerns the doe-eyed beauty of the title who meets a charming pianist from Prague at the local bandhall, and then a week later pursues him to his home town...
As with most films of the era, it has a timeless feel to it and still looks fantastic, there just seems to have been 'something about' the optics, celluloid and treatment processes of the time.
Interesting snippets of the regime at work here, from the documentary-like factory scenes, to the government planners deciding to locate an army barracks in this small town which has a surfeit of young unmarried females, to the lecture on chastity in the worker's hostel.
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