Lucerna aneb Boj o lípu

For my taste, this film is sometimes unnecessarily too goofy and full of (at that time, unfortunately, increasingly popular in theatre and film) various cheap jokes and allusions to the past regime and to sex, here especially to Hanička's lush breasts. It is not, however, such an atrocity as Ringo Čech’s Dívčí válka. Josef Dvořák's typical acting may be the biggest positive for some viewers of Lucerna aneb Boj o lípu and the biggest negative for others. I'm in the second group. Dvořák needs a fixed script (Circus Humberto, Pub, The Visitors), otherwise he starts experimenting and it ends up like this. Example: The audience is laughing at a joke that should have been in the play. Will Josef Dvořák be satisfied with that? Nope. Because as soon as he sees that one joke has worked, he needs to come up with another, improvised one... And it is not going to be as good. For the other actors, this must be something terrible - they have no choice but to laugh while waiting for the audience to laugh, to applaud, and especially for Dvořák to realize that enough is enough and that the play could go on again. (04/12/2011)