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Cannes ’68: Cinema in Revolt

Capricious Summer

1h 16m

Directed by Jiří Menzel • 1968 • Czechoslovakia

Two years after his worldwide hit CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant. A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, CAPRICIOUS SUMMER is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries.

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