Pure Devilry

C’est un genre de mix entre plusieurs contes fantastiques tchèques, avec de chouettes passages et d’autres moins bons. Čertoviny (Shenanigans) n’aspire pas à devenir le conte de l’année, mais il a au moins de quoi réjouir et amuser les petits et ne pas offusquer les grands. Cela dit, je pense que sur le thème des diables, le conte S čerty nejsou žerty restera indétrônable pendant un bon moment encore. Deux étoiles et demie qu'en accord avec mon état d’esprit du jour, j’arrondis vers le haut. (12/07/2018)

A routine fairy tale by Troška, this time in the variant of picturesque South Bohemian landscape + peasant baroque + devils + young love + miserly peasants + pre-revolutionary nobility. And since the waterman wasn’t there this time (he was replaced by a stray soul), we will see him again in another next fairy tale. And instead of the classic bickering, we get singing for a change. I don't know why he doesn't just make it into a series. (31/12/2019)

A simple but inoffensive fairy tale with a straightforward story, overlong running time, uneven performances, but no dumb humour, and with kitschy but ultimately quite nice cinematography and atmosphere. Nothing groundbreaking, but we are used to much bigger crap from Troška. Kids will probably like it, adults will painlessly survive it and it won't be a disgrace on TV in two years. So actually quite a success. (26/07/2018)