Bastardi

Les "Bâtards" sont meilleurs dans un rôle comique que dans un rôle dramatique où ils voudraient prendre le dessus. C'est précisément l'humour apporté par les enfants-acteurs, avec leur naturel et leurs répliques terre à terre, qui allège le drame, qui peut parfois sembler naïf voire ringard (scène à l'église). C'est dommage, car on y perd aussi une certaine valeur informative, une vérité sans détours sur des sujets que nous n'avons pas vus et que nous ne verrons probablement pas dans le cinéma tchèque. Tomáš Magnusek est un grand passionné du processus de création de films et, contrairement à de nombreux bavards, il les tourne également. Mais en tant que scénariste, il connaîtra probablement son véritable succès dans le domaine de la comédie populaire. (31/10/2010)

A rape revenge comedy into which Alexander Hemala oozed from somewhere on the bottom, along with paedophile sex and black magic (“you put a hex on the city!”). A dud that’s just as blatantly idiotic and atrociously tasteless as the films from the early years of Normalisation, but with food-porn delicacies such as Magnusek heating up sausages and Magnusek eating a cream puff. It’s enough to make a nutritionist choke on their organic granola. 20% (31/12/2012)

Good intentions and passion for the cause are sometimes not enough because this is a bad film through and through. It’s so ridiculous in its 'I am the true picture of contemporary education, adore me!' position that I am willing to give it one star. If you want to see how an idealistic teacher deals with a classroom full of assholes, watch the fourth season of The Wire instead. (13/02/2012)

Yes, I know that some topics need to be pointed out, and that the one this film is instigating is one of the most popular... But damn, why did they have to make such a super stupid movie? Even Czech TV shows look more film-like than this monstrosity. The actors and "actors" are either not acting or overacting, the script was probably made up during the ten-minute intermission... I could go on and on. I like the band Krucipüsk, so I was attracted to this film mainly by the participation of its (also totally non-acting) front-man Tomáš Hajíček. But now I'd rather forget he was there. I should have just listened to the one good song of his that is in the film on CD. Gross, folks. (04/11/2011)

I got my initial shock from Tomáš Magnusek's other works, but now I consider his contribution to Czech cinema as a certain line of independent production. The formal aspects are bad, and the acting is significantly cloudy, yet the theme is unfortunately topical and apt. The script is sometimes naive, sometimes very striking. (02/04/2011)