This absurdist patchwork of a film, already a hit in the Czech Republic, features a number of amusing set pieces.
Loners(Samotáři)
Czech Republic, Slovakia · 2000
1h 43m
Director David Ondříček
Starring Jitka Schneiderová, Saša Rašilov, Jiří Macháček, Labina Mitevska
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air. Vesna, came to Prague from Macedonia because it is according to her the best place for UFOs to land, but her real reason for coming is somewhat different... Hanka is followed by the crazy Ondrej, until then a respected brain surgeon, and married with two kids. Through him she meets Jacob, who uses copious amounts of weed in order to be constructive in this gloomy world. On the other hand, this destroys his short-term memory - and he forgets that he already has a girlfriend...
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
With its studied nonchalance, Loners reaches neither the hilarity of an episode of "Friends" nor the ethnographic stickiness of "The Real World" on MTV.
Contains exactly three decent jokes, all stuffed in the last 15 minutes.
Dryly funny and benevolently shrewd.
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