The Canary Connection

The most interesting thing - actually, what am I even talking about - the only interesting thing - is where Trajkov got the money for such a mess, because any producer who supports such a thing clearly proves their lack of sanity... And then it is actually interesting where the sanity of the actors participating in the "project" went, since the cast is above average. A waste of time in any aspect. Overall rating: 0%. (07/05/2007)

This is the first film to receive the Czech award for the worst film. Or what actually happened? Ivo Trajkov lent himself to the production of a film form that became an absolutely typical genre offshoot of the Czech 1990s. The bout of freedom and the division of Czechoslovakia must have looked exactly like this Canary Connection on live TV. Michal Penk, a composer and almost an actor, is the creator of the poster and Jan Saudek and his harem, including Sara, also make their acting debuts. Each name is a separate story of how each one of them handled their careers in the turbulent year 1993. Quite in the spirit of the times, the Czechs and Slovaks are equally divided here. In a way, it's a delight, but only for advanced consumers of that national treasure called cinema. It's hard to believe that under a different director, the Roden/Chýlková duo (especially Pavlásková) could have done something great, because here they are just pointlessly messing around. Lucie Zedníčková, on the other hand, merely repeated the parodic tone from other films and based her role mainly on the insanely overexposed costumes. And in complete contrast to all this, Miroslav Táborský saved face, whose performance was entirely appropriate to the thankless role of Rudolf Valentin '93. All in all, it's an invaluable museum of a bizarre time from which all future generations will have something to discover, and it's a shame it's not a TV perennial. (14/05/2015)