Czech film director Jiří Menzel has died at the age of 82, leaving behind some classics
My Sweet Little Village
, about the comings-and-goings in a small community forever locking horns with bureaucracy, was nominated for a best foreign Oscar. It lost to The Netherlands’s.from 2006. As withit concerns a somewhat bewildered individual whose desires get caught up in world events, mixing comedy and heartbreak.called Menzel’s work “defiant gestures of liberation” that “countered the morose and insidious puritanism of state ideology with joy and fun.
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