Daisies

“I also... I really love Daisies. It’s so out there and just beautiful to look at, and I don’t know who first told me about this film, but it’s one of my favorites. I always go back, and it’s just so colorful and it’s a vibe.”

“Daisies. It’s a Czech film by Věra Chytilová. I’ve just spent five years living in the Czech Republic, making a television series, The Wheel of Time. And the Czechs are fiercely witty and… they have a dark humor that’s actually very aligned with British humor. And I think what happened in the Czech New Wave was super exciting and avant-garde. And, you know, so much attention is paid to the French New Wave and much less to the Czech New Wave, so I’m putting Daisies in.”

“Daisies, one of the many, many incredible Czech films that came out in the '60s. Amazing ending. Makes you sick.”

“The first movie I'm going to bring up is... Daisies. So my family moved around a lot, but in seventh grade for one year we lived in a place where I could walk to a video rental store. They had Daisies, and I knew nothing about this movie. I just watched it as a seventh grade girl and it blew my mind. I was like, this is the best thing I've ever seen. I felt like so much freedom, I felt so absurd in the best way. Daisies was my very first experience of the Czechoslovak New Wave.”