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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780023642
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0780023641
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: August 22, 2000
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 63148
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1966
Editorial Review:
Description:
From the Academy Awardtmwinning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, this Czech New Wave classic was nominated for an Oscar® at the height of the Cold War. A piano player from Prague seduces a young, hopelessly lovelorn factory worker. Afterwards she assumes their one-night-stand will blossom into a fairy-tale romance, but learns otherwise when she arrives at his parents' home unannounced. Candidly shot by cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek (Silkwood, A League of Their Own), Loves of a Blonde is a timeless romantic comedy about the liberating and debilitating power of love.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The poignant, sweet story of Andula; one of Milos Foreman's fine, warm and subversive movies
Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde is a wonderful movie...sweet and awful. Sweet, because Forman gives us no one we can dislike as he tells us the story of Andula (Hana Brejchova), a young factory worker in the depressing town of Zruc, making endless pairs of shoes alongside dozens of other young women. Not Milda (Vladimir Puchott), the young piano player who comes to town with a band, seduces Andula, and then leaves for Prague. Not the factory bosses, or the other young women who are bored and eager ... Read More
Rating: - Emotional Voyage
This was a gift from my wishlist which was recommended by an old friend who had never seen it. I am very glad to have seen it. I was familiar with Milos Forman and I love the city of Prague.
The visual aspect of the film is "gritty reality" not beautiful Prague. Somehow I was taken on a trip back in time. Every harsh encounter I ever had with a love interest was revisited. Every stab of rejection was made to bleed again. Within this psychological voyage, is also a great deal of humor. I feel ... Read More
Rating:  - Drab
This Czech film from the mid 1960s is a drab piece of socialist realism, in the form of a quite bitter comedy (by Milos Forman, one of the most overrated filmmakers ever). The story: Milda, a young pianist goes to drab industrial small town to play one night, meets the bird-brained working class blonde Andula during the ball, they make love at his hotel room, he returns to Prague, she breaks with her boyfriend after a fight, and decides to go to Prague to meet Milda. As it happens, the pianist lives with ... Read More
Rating: - Love will find its way!
"Loves of a blonde" is a bitter, nostalgic and crude gaze around the lives, customs, social prejudices and naïve hopes of Czech Socialist Republic by then (1965), hilariously supported and featured as a modern fairy tale.
A very young woman falls in love with a pianist in occasion of a party. And since that impetuous love affair, she will make the best she can in order to maintain alive and materialize the eternal promises love, the lovers use to say.
The picture mirrors ... Read More
Rating: - Loves of a Blonde
Director Forman's breakthrough feature in his native country portrays a warm, affecting humanity even as it lampoons the inherent awkwardness and mystery of relations between the sexes. In all, this deceptively simple, charming story tackles the complex question of how love can function in a dysfunctional world. Both young leads are enormously appealing, particularly Brejchova, and those parents of Milda's are also worth the wait. All in all, this is one blonde that's easy to love.
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