Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Daisies is a landmark of the Czech New Wave and feminist cinema, directed by Věra Chytilová with a wildly inventive visual style — collage editing, color tinting, fractured chronology, and anarchic surrealism make it cinematographically exceptional and genuinely one-of-a-kind. Its Novelty is sky-high: no film quite looks, feels, or behaves like this one. The two leads deliver performances that are deliberately stylized and anti-naturalistic, fitting the film's absurdist logic well enough but not conventionally 'great' acting. The plot is intentionally loose and episodic — its anti-narrative structure is thematically purposeful but limits dramatic engagement in traditional terms. The ending is provocative and ambiguous, consistent with the film's subversive ethos, though its ironic moralizing coda divides audiences.