Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Some may find it weird and wonderful. I just found it weird. But a sight for sore eyes just the same, if you can keep them open.

What matters most is whether one finds Valerie's seemingly random episodes of lyrical grotesquerie mesmerizing or enervating.

Style, I can safely say, perfectly suits this view of the subject.

Practically everything in Valerie and Her Week of Wonders turns on magic and the film's success in creating a magic world where everything seems at once fantastic and immediately believable.

A weird and handsome and the kind of film I find so tedious I can hardly bear to sit through it.

Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders enjoys a richly deserved place in the international canon of timeless coming-of-age stories.

…one of the most unusual horror/fantasy films ever…a visually stunning folk tale…

As much as I love a good story, the best movies always transport me, in an intangible sense, through the base elements.

Valerie and her Week of Wonders, a Czech film about an adolescent girl and her fantasies about vampirism, is so fey and kitsch as hardly to be retained upon the retina, let alone survive in the memory.

This is essential viewing, and one of the great 20th century fantasy films.