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BEAUTY IN TROUBLE

Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic 2006 110 35mm Color
Film description
Marcela is an attractive wife and mother of two children in her thirties. Her husband Jarda has a car shop, where he transforms stolen cars to sumptuous vehicles.The family is in a financial and personal crisis after the floods. Only the sexual dependency of the couple keeps them together and the obstinate endeavor of Marcela’s somehow alienated mother-in-law. One day Marcela loses her patience and she leaves with the children to go to her mother’s.At her lowest, Marcela, meets a much older man. Evzen is rich and, what’s more, noble and cultivated. He lives in Tuscany and owns a villa in the Czech Republic.The Beauty, tested by destiny, sees the possibility of a better life with him...








