LOVEhunt

Sans l'avoir prévu, les films de Karel Janák se retrouvent au menu de ce réveillon de Noël et, tant pour le conte que pour cette comédie, je suis satisfait. Je suis néanmoins surpris par le niveau bas de son évaluation générale, vu qu’à part l'amie pathétique de Richard, celle-ci est très correcte. D’accord, c’est prévisible, mais la réalité actuelle des plateformes de rencontres et des bizarreries qui en découlent est capturée avec réalisme et dans un style légèrement caricatural. Ester Geislerová affiche une beauté épanouie et Jaroslav Plesl ne déçoit décidément jamais – au grand jamais ! (25/12/2019)

It’s more of Janák's sterile nonsense, which Evelyn Kramer helped to raise out of sheer desperation. Once again, it might have been an appreciative audience rom-com full of welcome stereotypes about a girl who gets dumped during a wedding ceremony. But then the lead role couldn't be played by Ester, who was acting like a scared fish, and the script would have to make sense. Coincidences, mistakes, dreams, it's all piled up in one heap, and each successive turn is suffocating on the soul. (16/09/2019)

Karel Janák has his own distinctive way of storytelling which can in one case come across as stupid and is stupid... and at other times comes across as stupid but is bearable. Lovehunt is the latter, nevertheless I had to think long and hard to form my opinion. And I don’t suppose that I am some kind of nagging critic that looks for faults on purpose in every Czech movie just to make it look bad. On one hand I don’t think that Lovehunt is a successful romantic comedy. There were cringe-worthy moments in which I literally had to close my eyes and wished I would never have to see them. On the other hand, the story itself has something to it. Ester Geislerová and Jakub Prachař complement each other amusingly and when I think about it in the context of a romantic comedy, I even laughed from time to time. But still I wonder why the director, who filmed the teenage comedy Snowboarders about a thousand years ago, would nowadays film this would-be adult romantic comedy in a similar way. (07/01/2020)

Apparently, I still keep a certain level of naivety, because deep down I was secretly hoping to get a quality Czech comedy. Well, I didn’t... In a way, almost all romantic comedies are the same – the plot is painfully predictable. LOVEhunt was no exception. It was clear from the beginning who would end up with whom. There was obviously a number of obstacles, which was to be expected. The problem was that the film was really cringeworthy at times. I like Evelyn as a comedian, but as Eva Kramerová, the actress, she was very unconvincing. I didn't understand the character of Eva played by Romana Goščíková at all and I was far from satisfied, but... the film also managed to entertain me at times, Ester Geislerová gave a great performance (her eyelid twitch at the wedding was perfect), Jaroslav Plesl totally nailed his small role, and Jakub Prachař’s performance was a nice surprise as well. (29/07/2019)