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She Came at Night

Special Screenings 2023 / Přišla v noci / Czech Republic 2023

Synopsis

Jirka and Aneta are a young couple who enjoy the routine of their quiet relationship and are in no hurry to make big decisions in life. One night in their inherited flat, the doorbell rings and standing at the door is Jirka’s mother Valerie. An initially brief call turns into a never-ending visit from an intense and caustic diva whose presence fundamentally disrupts the couple’s privacy. Certainties are shaken, boundaries broken. Although the film’s directorial duo works with a familiar premise, they subvert any dark humor with a sense of tension more commonly found in horror movies, all of it wrapped in the penetrating question: Is the mother’s unbearable smothering legitimate or are mothers sometimes the biggest monsters of all?

Sandra Hezinová

About the film

85 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Jan Vejnar, Tomáš Pavlíček / Screenplay Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar / Dir. of Photography Šimon Dvořáček / Music Aid Kid / Sound Michaela Patríková / Editor Jakub Vansa / Art Director Zuzana Mazáčová / Producer Eva Pavlíčková, Pavel Vácha, Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar / Production Bratři s.r.o. / Coproduction PFX, Soundsquare, Česká televize, Artcam Films, Drive Film Factory / Cast Simona Peková, Annette Nesvadbová, Jiří Rendl / Contact Bratři s.r.o. / Distributor Artcam Films