Banned by Czech authorities upon its release for “depicting the wanton”, the film presents the story of two female friends, both called Marie and fashionably dolled-up, playing a game of escorts. As Nicolas Rapold states in The New York Times, “the extraordinary 1966 film ‘Daisies’ represents an exhilarating, lesser-known strain of the Czech New Wave. This radically mischievous work was the second feature of the wave’s sole female director, Vera Chytilova. In her visually arresting, capricious film — full of colorful experiments, dazzling collage effects and surrealist antics — two dangerously bored young women have anarchic fun in a series of loosely connected episodes.”

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