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what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Getting pointed to a site thanks to a very kind IMDber I started taking a look at what titles were on the site.With starting to gather Czech movies up,I was pleased to spot a Czech New Wave (CNW) take on Adam & Eve,which led to me getting ready to taste the fruit of paradise.The plot:After Adam and Eve have long faded into history,a secluded health resort is inhabited by Josef,his wife Eve and a mysterious man called Robert.Discovering that Robert has dropped his key,Eve secretly enters his house (lucky that it is so close by!) and checks Robert's belongings.Finding a stamp,Eve stamps herself with the number 6.Reading a newspaper a few days later,Eve finds out that a women has been murdered,with the killer leaving a stamped number 6 as a signature,which leads to Eve fearing that their paradise is about to end.View on the film:Riding the wave of Zdenek Liska's Prog Rock score,co-writer/(along with Ester Krumbachová) director Vera Chytilová & cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera slide their allegorical verse into vibrant surrealism,with frosty blues and rose reds bringing biblical passion to the tale.Keeping the trio in their surreal Garden of Eden, Chytilová releases sped-up Czech New Wave tracking shots which stylishly reveal how isolated Eve,Josef and Robert are from the outside world.Getting an 8 year ban after from the Soviet gov,the screenplay by Chytilová & Krumbachová aim for their Adam and Eve to explore the occupied state of the country.Whilst Chytilová does well at making the location look cut off from the world,the writers appear unsure over how to get their points across,as attempts to reveal the group living a lie of paradise leads to the movie wandering around not knowing how to open any of the trio up in order to fully explore the issues,as the fruit turns out to have a taste that is far from paradise.

OK, Věra Chytilová's "Ovoce stromů rajských jíme" ("Fruit of Paradise" in English) is one of the single WEIRDEST movies that I've ever seen. I understand that it's based on the story of Adam and Eve and transposed to a health spa, but I swear that there was no identifiable plot. Maybe the director (a doyenne of the Czech New Wave) was trying to be philosophical, but I couldn't see that the movie was trying to say anything. As far as I could tell, it was a wasted effort.Trivia: Barrandov Studios, where they filmed "Fruit of Paradise", was also the set of "Amadeus", "Mission: Impossible", "A Knight's Tale" and "Snowpiercer", among other movies.

If you enjoy watching a mercurial, concupiscent woman-child scamper about, this is the film for you. And I'm not just talking to Bjork fans.At times it was like watching a ballet without the dancing, although there were moves on display. Very much Free Love kind of moves. I would say this would be a great film for a band to project while playing some trippy music, but then the audience would miss Zdenek Liska's score (although the drums in the attic scene would be a hit for rawk concerteers).As pointed out by another reviewer (and the three posted so far all fit with my experience), the first 15 minutes are the most obscure and camera crazy. I wonder if director Vera Chytilova figured censors would get a headache, or have to send in reports to their superiors within 15 minutes and give up? Even then as the story is revealed, it challenges deciphering. Well at least in the year 2014 here in the States. I can see the trend of white (purity) to red (trouble/communism) to black (death), and there is a dresser that is just a fake front, so that too can be seen maybe as some Pop Art reverse AgitProp. I have to say these thoughts never rose up directly while watching it.For first time Czech checkers, I'd start with "Daisies" first, but I need to figure out what to watch next. I like the raw exuberant art here even if Chytilova felt walled off from her occupied and getting wasted teenage motherland.

"The Fruit of Paradise" is a breathtaking experimental film from Vera Chytilova. Well known for her surreal feminist comedy "Daisies" (1966), Chytlova uses many of the same hallucinatory camera tricks for "The Fruit of Paradise". I used to think that the film "Begotten" was original until I saw the "Fruit of Paradise". The film's first 15 minutes is highly psychedelic as it tells the story of creation. There are layers of image on top of image with fast camera cuts. The film almost made my head spin with it's fast pace, use of color and bizarre experimental sound effects. Then it breaks out into a song about Adam & Eve, which is hauntingly catchy. Now if only I could learn Czech. Then the story of Adam and Eve goes to a modern setting. The devil is portrayed as creepy man of middle age; a persistent stalker and serial killer of women. Eva and her boyfriend go on vacation to a health spa, where they encounter temptation. The devil gets Eva to eat the forbidden fruit. Then the film becomes very comical throughout, as the Devil chases adorable Eva everywhere she goes. Very deep, surreal and philosophical, "The Fruit of Paradise" is another underrated masterpiece to Czech out! This lost classic is finally available at www.facets.org or Amazon.com if you want to save money.