Director: Vera Chytilová
Country: Czechoslovakia
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The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun is a 1983 Czechoslovak comedy film adapted from the Jiří Brdečka 1966 novel of the same name; directed by Věra Chytilová. This was Chytilová’s only post Soviet invasion collaboration with screenwriter Ester Krumbachová. A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac’s fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time’s passage. Faun’s sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can’t manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistible seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
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