Women in Temptation

Colour, 35 mm
Czech Republic, 2010, 115 min
Section: Czech Films 2009-2010

Synopsis

Helena is forty years old and her colleagues consider her a respected authority on marital problems. One day, however, she finds herself in the very same situation as the patients who come to her seeking practical professional advice as a marriage counsellor: her husband has found a younger woman and Helena involuntarily finds herself on the threshold of a new, solitary existence. She doesn’t get much help from her family, though; her daughter Laura is struggling to avoid the pitfalls of first love, and her mother Vilma’s quirky views on life seem totally out of place. But there are still worthy candidates for romantic adventure out there – and the three heroines discover that life has a lot to offer. It just calls for courage, objectivity and a little luck.... This relationship comedy by popular director Jiří Vejdělek, who also wrote the screenplay, is the Czech answer to "Sex and the City”, with its essential dose of bitter irony.

About the director

Jiří Vejdělek (b. 1972, Šluknov, CR) initially studied to be a teacher but then went on to study directing at FAMU where he began earning points for his college films Muse (1998) and Sweets (1999 – entered for the short film programme at the Cannes IFF). In 2004 he was involved in the TV comedy series "The Office”, then he developed his interest in comedy with his feature debut based on Michal Viewegh’s bestseller, Holiday Makers, which had the highest cinema audience figures of any Czech film in 2006 and earned Eva Holubová a Best Actress Award and the Special Jury Prize for the whole cast at the 2006 Tribeca IFF in New York. In 2007 he filmed the poetic Romany comedy Roming and the tragicomedy about a village idiot Václav (two Czech Lions, Golden Goblets at the 2008 Shanghai IFF for actress Emília Vášáryová and screenwriter Marek Epstein).