In
Forman’s humanity-drenched examination of young love in Communist
Czechoslovakia, a pretty factory worker with a capriciously romantic nature
(Hana Brejchová) reluctantly agrees to spend the night with a piano playing
lothario (Vladimír Pucholt), who is in town for one night only. However, a week
later, after a very public row with her former fiancé, with her now being very
much in love with the departed pianist, she sets off on a whim to be with him
in the city, but succeeds only in spending a rather awkward evening with the
young man’s parents (Milada Ježková & Josef Šebánek) at their Prague home.
Gently funny, quietly affecting, and beautifully crafted, this lovely little
film is perhaps Forman’s finest.
