To me, this movie is perfection.

People are voting emotionally.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Over the course of the playful and influential Czech New Wave, very few female filmmakers added to the constant cannon fire of creativity coming from Czech cinema at the time. However, Vera Chytilova, who was basically a totally lone voice in the trend of radical Czech New Wave films, remains one of the movements most notable and brilliant filmmakers, and her excellent experimental comedy 'Daisies' is among the two or three most iconic purely Czech New Wave films. On my second watching, various thing stuck out to me as being particularly fantastic. Firstly and foremostly, the movie is entertaining beyond belief and, despite being a film w/so slim a runtime, feels even shorter than the unfortunately brief 74 minutes in which it is in the viewer's company. I also loved the use of constantly changing color, much of the film is tinted, while the rest oft has very bright, eye popping cinematography. I also appreciate the totally anarchic and rebellious nature the film carelessly flaunts around w/humor and vigor. It's so intentionally offensive to the uptight, largely patriarchal, and authoritarian society of prudes the film satirizes w/a smile that I fell in love with practically every second of it. It's a picaresque rollicking feminist romp that is as sexy as it is surreal and as daring and dangerous as it is beautiful and brilliant.

I will add my voice to Writers_reign and Jason Forestein so that they will not lone voices in the wind.I was expecting better things from this movie since Eclipse has doubled it with The Party and the Guests. This is a thoughtful allegorical critique of how Socialism / Communism has worked in practice instead of how it was supposed to have worked in theory. I now realise the only reason for doing this is because both films are part of the so called Czech New Wave and were short enough to fit onto a single DVD. Where as Party and Guests had a structure and message behind it, Dasies has minimal content and very little to recommend it.I think it is time to burst a few conception bubbles contained in some of the comments here.Firstly, this is not a feminist movie, it is an anti-men film. There is a very big difference. Shame on the men who didn't realise this.Nor is it Anarchy as some people have claimed. Anarchy is a number of people working together to achieve a common objective without the need for an umbrella stricture of administrators to tell them what to do. They know what is required and get on with doing it by themselves. What people usually mean when they use the word Anarchy is chaos. Again there is a very big difference.So far as the cinematography goes, changing colour filters many times mid scene and changing costumes halfway through a kiss is not artistic but the director trying hard to be arty and not pulling it off.As for the period when the film was made. After Stalinism, albeit at a distance, had been lifted, the director did not know what to do with her new found freedom and went around like the angry cavalier who rode off furiously in all directions. Or even more like the proverbial dog with two dicks. A flurry of activity finished up producing something that was sterile. "People don't like freedom, they don't know what to do with it." Those interested enough should see my Satantango review for an explanation of this quote.It seems to me the destructive element of the main characters derived from boredom associated with the minimal real content or purpose in their lives and there is nothing for viewers of the film to respect in this.All in all, this was a very disappointing effort. I can count this amongst the ten most irrelevant films I have seen and it scores only one point from me.

'Daises' is the most ingenious women movie ever made. The key for watching the movie is to immediately accept the two women as real. Every second in this movie is a statement, so it overwhelms the spectator whether he/she likes it or not. Keep up with Vera C. (the director) because willingly or not she discloses the most precious secret of women's mind. The only condition is that you must like and enjoy her two women (girls). It is a privilege to watch this forty year old movie. The movie was done long before any consensus was reached about the social status of women. The seemingly chaotic world brings out the most essential needs. Vera C. brings us the best out of the'theater of absurd' stream. I think Samuel Beckett would have been impressed with this Experiment.

I seem to be a lone dissenting voice in a chorus of approval. So be it. Whilst it seems clear that there is a strong satirical element at work here I have to confess that my knowledge of the political situation in what used to be called Czechoslovakia is non-existent so that all the barbs eluded me. On the other hand I had little problem with either Closely Observed Trains or The Firemen's Ball, both the work of Czech filmmakers and both satirical attacks on the political situation that prevailed at the time they were made. When I say I had no problem I don't wish to imply that I understood the satire but I do mean that the respective directors had included a sufficient 'entertainment' element to make their films accessible to a non-Czech audience, something which Vera Chytilova has failed to do here - or at least as far as I am concerned. I rented this film on the strength of the favourable reviews I had read and I take no pleasure in disagreeing with the majority but, alas, I can find little if anything to praise.